Spades And Thieves

I’m a bit late with today’s post..., so was captain Arthur Philip who left England with 11 ships full of convicts (most of them petty thieves from London) on May 13th 1787 and set sail to establish a penal colony in Australia. Till 1780 it was a convenient way for the British government to send them to the America’s to get rid off ‘unwanted groups’ in society from youngest-sons-without-heritance to prostitutes, political pain-in-the-necks and vagabonds. 8 months later, the crew, officers and some soldiers together with 778 desperado’s without much farm or technical skills came on shore of New South Wales. The first digging and pitching tents started in what would become the city of Sydney. Image by Photobucket/carollin5