Greeted by a kangaroo
to Whitby's Captain Cook Museum housed in John Walker's home, who took on Cook in his late teens as an apprentice seaman.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
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| Endeavour - 1769 |
This visit sort of closed the loop, having visited Botany Bay in Australia and crossed the Cook Straits which separate North and South New Zealand a few years back.
After a scampi lunch for me and kippers for Gek, we strolled on to photograph the harbour entrance
but chicken out of climbing the 199 steps up to cliff top abbey.
