Botany Bay Park

Two and a half years ago, my friend Gerry and I began an epic trek (... well epic for US) along the coast of greater Sydney. This began at Barenjoey Point in the north and has extended some 200 kilometres to a finishing point south of Cronulla, the Bass & Flinders Memorial, which we plan to reach before midday tomorrow ... at long long last.

We have completed the task in a series of five hour hikes whenever the weather and the opportunity presented themselves. The route has taken in all of the local ocean beaches and headlands as well as the complete circumnavigation of both the harbour and historic Botany Bay. Here we find ourselves on that barren section of coastline belonging to Botany Bay National Park between Botany Bay proper and the vast stretches of beach around Bate Bay to the south. The path at this point features exposed sandstone clifftop, lots of rock pools and tough vegetation which has to survive tremendous heat and horrendously saline air.

I thought that this picture looked pretty unusual with the bright sun peering through a cloud bank and reflecting directlty in the water.

The total trek has been recorded visually almost every step of the way and can be found in a series of galleries on my pbase site.