10 Things You Didn’t Know About Everybody’s Favorite Surfer, Mark Occhilupo, A.K.A. Occy
1. A Bloody Point Of Origin
Occy grew up just a few hundred meters from the spot where early explorer Captain James Cook first set foot on Australian soil at Kurnell, thus beginning European settlement of the Great Southern Land. Things didn’t go too well from the start. Cook’s men were greeted by a curious group of Aborigines who seemed hostile, so Cook fired a warning shot over them. One local responded by hurling a rock at them, so Cook shot him. Thus, white settlement of Australia was begun with a volley of bullets and spears.
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