Between the Ship and the Shore

Between the Ship and the Shore is something I heard an Aboriginal journalist say about the cultural divide that appeared the moment the ships arrived in Australia full of convicts in 1788. In this image I picture the moment of arrival, where the silence both on shore and on board meet. Nothing is known yet. The great winged boats filled with strangely clothed white people must have look surreal to the Warrane (Sydney Cove) clans. According to Watkin Tench, a Colonial Diarist, the whites on board "cast many an anxious eye" as their boat runs along the shore for this very first time.