From The Beginning Now - Happy Australia Day
So here is a wide open shot of Cronulla beach looking down one end . Now this really is a more typical morning beach scene during summer in Australia. You see your surflife savers in the foreground doing their stretching exercises - they always do this swing leggey thing with each other - as they are getting ready to go in the rowing long boats in the distance. These guys are super super fit - they run up and down the beach at 6 am and then jump in the boats and do some serious rowing.
Off in the distance - well that headland is where Captain Cook landed - the white 'settlement' of Australia on January 26th 1788. So on a morning pretty similar to this , almost to the day, - can you imagine what the crew thought - we have found Paradise !. And then can you imagine what the indigenous thought - who are these idiots in their crazy clothes ;).
So when they got back to the UK , from what I understand, they went and told everyone how wonderful Australia was and how warm it was. So when the next ship arrived - in winter now - they all shivered ...I always find that amusing. As I had the same thoughts myself when I 'landed' in Bondi Beach many moons ago - it was grey, rainy and cold - I could not believe it - some lessons are just never learned ;)).
From The Beginning Now - Happy Australia Day
So here is a wide open shot of Cronulla beach looking down one end . Now this really is a more typical morning beach scene during summer in Australia. You see your surflife savers in the foreground doing their stretching exercises - they always do this swing leggey thing with each other - as they are getting ready to go in the rowing long boats in the distance. These guys are super super fit - they run up and down the beach at 6 am and then jump in the boats and do some serious rowing.
Off in the distance - well that headland is where Captain Cook landed - the white 'settlement' of Australia on January 26th 1788. So on a morning pretty similar to this , almost to the day, - can you imagine what the crew thought - we have found Paradise !. And then can you imagine what the indigenous thought - who are these idiots in their crazy clothes ;).
So when they got back to the UK , from what I understand, they went and told everyone how wonderful Australia was and how warm it was. So when the next ship arrived - in winter now - they all shivered ...I always find that amusing. As I had the same thoughts myself when I 'landed' in Bondi Beach many moons ago - it was grey, rainy and cold - I could not believe it - some lessons are just never learned ;)).