Quick History Lesson

We kicked off this trip with a QANTAS flight from Los Angeles to Auckland piloted by Captain Cook and then today spotted this marker in a neighborhood of the tiny town of Seventeen-Seventy commemorating the visit of another Captain Cook.

The plaque reads: Under the lee of this point Lieutenant James Cook, R.N. landed on 24th May ______.

Pop Quiz:

Fill in the blank. A packet of Vegemite to the first person with the correct answer.

Here is the view from the Banks memorial lookout, in that same neighborhood, honoring Cook’s shipmate, botanist Joseph Banks, whose name is attached to at least 75 species of plants.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

-- Thomas Stearns Eliot