Our Beautiful World

HISTORICAL MONUMENTS 

- is the theme I selected this week 71 at Our Beautiful World

Recently we took a long weekend break to visit somewhere new....which turned out to be a very small town on the Queensland central coast - Town of 1770.  

A pretty weird name to give a place...so we find out the story.

 

Here is a cairn erected in 1926 to celebrate Lt James Cooks second landing on the shores of Australia

 which occurred on 24th May 1770

This is a panoramic view from Bustard Head of the land and estuary they would have seen as they charted the coastline (click on the pic for a larger view)

I admire greatly these adventurers who sailed off into the unknown and to have found a new landmass and that to become my home is awesome.

Thanks for taking a peek, Robyn

Be sure to pop over to the other team members and players to see their monument photos and please join in and share your pics.