Australia Day  - 2021 

Monday 18th Jan 2021 

It was 233 Years Today When Arthur Phillip & The First Fleet Finally Sailed Into Botany Bay, So Named After The Discoveries Of Flora & Fauna Sir Joseph Banks Had Discovered On The 1770 Voyage Of Captain Cook On The HMAS Endeavour After Recording The Eclipse Of Saturn In Tahiti. 
By All Records And Accounts Botany Bay Was The New “Eden” As Sir Joseph Banks Had Been Portraying For The 20 Odd Years To The Royal Society In London, As Well As Being In The Ear Of King George III. 
But As Captain Arthur Phillip Sailed In On The HMAS Sirius, The Lead Ship Of The Fleet, What He Found Was Vastly Different To What Had Been Described After The Perilous 8 Month Journey From Portsmouth In May 1787. 
Botany Bay Itself Turned Out To Be Too Shallow For a The Ships To Even Be Able To Come Close To Shore... The Wind That Had Got Them Into The Bay Itself Suddenly Died, And The Fleet Of Ships Were Left Unable To Sail Out Again Until A Southerly Or Coastal Wind Picked Up Again. 
When Arthur Phillip Sailed Ashore, He Found that The Land Was Very Sandy & Swampy All Around, As Well As The Fact There Didn’t Seem To Be Any Fresh Water Supply To Refill. 
He Also Noticed That There Ant Mounds Everywhere & These Black Ants That Had A Sharp Bite Attacked Him, And His Marines Once They Were Ashore.
He Had Been Promised By Sir Joseph Banks And The Royal Society Back In London That There Would Be Plenty Of Wild Game. 
Sir Joseph Banks Had Been Successful Bringing Back Kangaroos 🦘 For The Pleasure Of King George II
 There Was Also Very Little Wildlife So He Questioned If There Would Even Be Enough Food To Feed a The 1700 convicts And