Gorgeous Cloudy Day At Botany Bay

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Gorgeous Cloudy Day At Botany Bay

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Miroslava Jurcik

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Torben Spirit arriving at Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia, 2011. The picture is taken from La Perouse Point.
Its a gorgeous day, perfect day for exploring as it wasn't too hot. The clouds creating wonderful backdrop. On the left you can see part of Bare Island and behind Torben Spirit, the tanker, is Botany Bay National park where Capt. Cook first arrived.
Eighteen years later, in 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip sailed the armed tender HMS Supply into the bay on 18 January. First contact was made with the local indigenous people, the Eora, who seemed curious but suspicious of the newcomers. Two days later the remaining ships of the First Fleet arrived to found the planned penal colony. However, the land was quickly ruled unsuitable for settlement as there was insufficient fresh water; Phillip also believed the swampy foreshores would render any colony unhealthy as the bay was open and unprotected, the water too shallow to allow the ships to anchor close to the shore, and the soil was poor.
Today most of the swamps had been drain and extensive settlement built. Today properties at La Perouse are worth around million dollars.

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