Foundation Day on NI
Today was Foundation Day on NI. For those who live on Norfolk Island, and travel here for the event, it was a wonderful day.
A re-enactment of the landing in 1788 by a small party of seven free men, two marines, two seamen, one midshipman and nine male and six female convicts, led by Philip Gidley King, was held.
Hundreds of visitors and locals were there to witness the celebration. They heard the stories of those times, and the stories of the lives of the early settlers from their children.
That first settlement brought on shore provisions for six months, plus sheep, […]