La Perouse is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. La Perouse is located about 14 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Randwick.
The La Perouse peninsula is the northern headland of Botany Bay. It is notable for its old military outpost at Bare Island and the Botany Bay National Park. Congwong Bay Beach, Little Congwong Beach, and the beach at Frenchmans Bay provide protected swimming areas in Botany Bay. La Perouse is one of few Sydney suburbs with a French title, another being Sans Souci. Kurnell is located opposite, on the southern headland of Botany Bay.

La Perouse was named after the French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88), who landed on the northern shore of Botany Bay west of Bare Island in January 1788. La Pérouse’s two ships sailed to New South Wales after some of his men had been attacked and killed in the Navigator Islands (Samoa). La Pérouse arrived off Botany Bay on 24 January just six days after Captain Arthur Phillip (1738-1814) had anchored just east of Bare Island, in H.M. Armed Tender Supply. On 26 January 1788, as Arthur Phillip was moving the First Fleet around to Port Jackson after finding Botany Bay unsuitable for a Settlement, La Pérouse was sailing into Botany Bay, anchoring there just eight days after the British had.(from wikipedia)

喜欢La Perouse这个悉尼南部的半岛.当年刚到澳洲的时候,就知道这么个"南半球最知名的裸体海滩".感觉不过尔尔.没想到后来搬到南区后,这里竟然成了"我家后院",隔三差五都要过来一下.真没想到缘分居然会这么深.

说起La Perouse这个地名很有意思,在悉尼这个地界用法语命名的地方不多.这其实是一个法国船长的名字.说来这老兄也是不走运,他比菲利普.阿瑟只迟到悉尼6天,结果便"主客之势易也."成了受招呼的客人.整个澳大利亚因为这老兄的迟到,而没有讲成优美的法语.


我到La Perouse一般三件事:第一件和裸体海滩有关,不好意思说;第二件和吃有关,不好意思说;第三件就是兜风啦.音响开的大大的,把一切和形而上有关的抛在脑后:
---我爱La Perouse!仅仅因为那几个法语的音节.
呵呵.



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