Botany Bay National Park - La Perouse
Botany Bay National Park conserves an amazing array of native plants and birds and boasts magnificent coastline views, bushwalks, beaches, picnic areas and historic buildings, forts and monuments. Visit the park, La Perouse Museum and Bare Island.
Less than an hour drive from Sydney's centre, the park invites the visitor to find out more about our historic past at sites on both the north and south headlands of Botany Bay. 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.
For details the NPWS Sydney Information Office on (02) 9247 5033
La Perouse Museum
Discover the story of the ill-fated explorer the Comte de Laperouse who landed at Botany Bay in 1788 just six days after the First Fleet! Learn of their encounter with the British and local Aboriginal people. View maps, early navigation instruments and relics salvaged from shipwrecks. New exhibits are created frequently.
When: Museum is open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm
Entry Cost: $5.50 adult, $3.30 concession, $13.20 Family (2 A+ 2 C)
Bare Island Fort Tour
In 1885 concerned British colonists thought invasion from Russians was imminent. Bare Island Fort was built to protect ‘Sydney’s back door’ - Botany Bay - thus settling the minds of our early settlers. Enter a world of military pride, shocking scandals and hidden secrets. We will bring out the big guns to impress you on this tour! You may recognise Bare Island as the location for some thrilling action sequences in a well-known movie… MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II, visit to find out more!
When: Sundays 1.30pm, 2.30pm
Meeting Point: Entrance to the Fort. Bookings not required
Cost: $7.70 Adults, $5.50 Concession, $22.00 Family (2 A +2 C)
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