Activities for Kids at Kamay Botany Bay National Park Straddling
the two headlands at the entrance to Botany Bay, this national
park features a unique combination of natural and cultural
heritage. The park is the site of first contact between the crew
of James Cook's Endeavour and the Aboriginal people of Australia
in 1770. It's also the place where France's famous explorer Jean
François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, arrived within a week of
the British First Fleet in 1788. Beneath the park's gouged
sandstone cliffs, there are rich marine environments. Above
them, you'll find remnants of the heathland vegetation which
Banks and Solander, Cook's botanists, first studied in 1770. You
can explore the Banks-Solander track, with its fascinating
insights into the once-widespread vegetation communities that
Cook's botanists explored in 1770. Or learn about Australia's
Aboriginal history and European colonisation, told in the
Lapérouse Museum and the Visitor Centre. Enjoy the Cape Baily
Coast Walk, with its windswep