Camp Cove Beach
Crescent of harbour sand where the First Fleet made its first overnight camp before settling Sydney Cove.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Camp Cove Beach in Sydney opens on the evening of 21 January 1788, as Captain Arthur Phillip beaches the First Fleet here for the night while deciding whether this harbour is worth settling. It follows what happened at this same stretch of sand in the days after: officers rowing back to meet the Cadigal people who had lived on this shoreline, and a first encounter that began warmer than what came next. It quotes sailor Jacob Nagle's own journal entry describing that first night on the sand. Stand facing the water where the tents once stood.
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