https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28979 September sun, Sydney Cove, a restless vision of light and water suggesting a place of shimmering significance. A vast supernatural; sun explodes like a comet over Circular Quay with the misty Rocks and Harbour Bridge on one side and the arching shells of the Opera House on the other, a dreamy Kirribilli in the background. The iridescent tide is so huge, blue 'and sparkling, it filled all Sydney with the open sea'. Captain James Cook missed 'one of the finest, most beautiful, vast and safe bays the sun has ever shone on'. Sir Joseph Banks argued for Botany Bay, with its unique flora and fauna but without (as it turned out) adequate freah water - for the convicts, it might have been the moon. Luckily, in the very next inlet, through a dramatic opening in the cliffs, Captain Arthur Phillip's longboat and cutters found green promontories, calm waters, golden sands, tall eucalypts and angophoras, sandstone outcrops and Gadigal women fishing in nowie (canoes).]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:29:27 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:16684 Fri 30 Aug 2024 12:06:43 AEST ]]>