#botany bay

[huariqueje]

Pre-dawn sky over Port Botany container terminal - Jude Rae , 2025.

Australian , b. 1956 -

Oil on linen, 200 x 150.4 cm.

[galina]

Everything I needed: holding hands in the sea, lying on the hot sand, singing into the space between cliffs, the way a sun-warm cherry bursts in my mouth, salt water dries in spots on my sunglasses, a perfect shell floats between us, so much blue and green

[twitterexile]

James Cook:

"All the seem'd to want was for us to be gone."

Botany Bay, 30 April 1770.

[lobbycards]

Botany Bay, Mexican lobby card. Mexican theatrical release 1953

[stealthflower]

Gorgeous morning along the bay today. We even saw what we thought were sand pipers, but iNaturalist has since informed me are migratory bar-tailed godwits, escaping northern hemisphere winter. Birds get the weirdest common names, I swear. Makes plants look sensible.

[llucerophotography]

Egrets at Botany Bay

Edisto Island, South Carolina. October 2024. Photos by Lorien Lucero.

[underlived]

Poseidon's throne

[perspectiv8]

14 May, 2025