Took a train an hour South of Sydney today to Cronulla from which I cycled about 9km each way to Botany Bay National Park where the actual sport where Captain Cook landed in 1770 is.
The landing place is marked by 2 monuments, a small stone on the rock amongst the sand and sea where the first step was taken and a larger monument on the mainland, amazingly despite being such a histrionic sight there are no tourists as it’s not promoted that much and most cant be bothered to make the 1 hour train journey and 20 min bus or 30 min cycle to get there, not only is it a historic site but the whole national park is very nice too so is well worth a visit.
In the afternoon got the train back towards Sydney and got off at a station just South of the airport and cycled to Brighton le sands and what a beach, which is situated alongside the airports main runway, you can get so close to the taxing and taking off planes the you feel you can almost touch their wingtips, I was lucky enough to see 3 Of the Airbus A380 planes up close, but for the photo of the day here is a BA Boeing 747 starting it’s long journey home to England, with people watching up close by the fence while others just enjoy the beach, next time I come back to Sydney I really must spend a few days here rather than just a few hours!
That evening had my first and only night out in Sydney, I had decided to do a pub crawl of some of my favorite bars from my previous times in Sydney, my first stop had planned to be the Irish bar called Scruffy Murphy’s where I spent my 25th Birthday up until I was rudely chucked out of the bar by bouncers at 4am for tripping down a step, and despite my claims that I hadn’t drunk much and blaming it on my new shoes, they still chucked me out and I was escorted back to the hostel by a Canadian guy where the drinking continued till sunrise! (Now I can’t have been that drunk due to the fact that I still remember that 5 and a half years on!)
Anyway back to the present, in the end this time I didn’t even make it through the door at Scruffy Murphysl due to the fact that they were charging $10 entry, and the fact that I only wanted 1 pint there that would make it a very expensive pint so it was there loss as I moved on and had a great night by visiting 4 different bars.
I ended up at a MacDonald’s at 3am and really am not a fan of big macs so decided to order a 3ams feast of Hot Apple pie and Ice cream which after a long day and a nice pub crawl actually went down very well before getting a taxi back to my hostel!
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