Can Any Botany Hear Me

Day: 387

Towns / Cities Visited: 294

Countries Visited: 31

Steps Taken Today: 12,759

Steps Taken Around the World: 6,018,217

It was to be a day of driving, and although we were not going to venture outside the greater reaches of Sydney, we still had a ninety-minute drive to reach our first location for the day. As such, we tried our best to leave at a reasonable time, the endeavour made easier by the fact we were once again awoken early by the tittering of a three-year-old.

So, where were we headed, you ask? Botany Bay. Now, for all you readers from overseas and Australian’s who have forgotten your history lessons, this is the bay in which Captain Cook first landed to ‘claim’ the country for the crown. Making our way around to the southern section of the bay to the suburb of Kurnell, we pulled up and headed in the direction of the aforementioned landing spot.

Here, sitting on an unassuming hillside, sits a pillar marking the historical site. In the water adjacent also sits a rather minimalist but wholly captivating set of curved metal beams laid out to both resemble the ribs of a whale and the frame of a ship: a clever nod to both the First Nations People as well as the Colonists.