Day 131 - trip south part I - Mona Vale to Ulladulla via Botany Bay

After another great fruit breakfast, we hopped into our rented Toyota and, having set up to pay tolls with an "Emu" Pass, headed over the Harbour Bridge

and detoured to Botany Bay NP for an interesting exhibition (did you know that, on 28 April 1770, when he stepped onto Australian soil, he wasn't Captain Cook at all but Lieutenant Cook? Poor sod, sent off to find a land that might not actually have been there and not even promoted beforehand! or that his wife's cousin, Midshipman Isaac Smith, was actually the first of the crew off the Endeavour?) 

Naturally, there are a couple of monuments on the landing site (including some to the poor Aboriginals who unsurprisingly weren't all that chuffed to see the visitors).

Onward down the Princes and the Pacific Coast Highways, stopping for some cracking sea views

and a look around pretty seaside town, Kiama, with its gracious buildings dating from the 1830s

and impressive blowhole (the town's name comes from the Aboriginal word Kirama : "place where the sea makes a big noise")