 The remaining ships of the Fleet did not arrive at Sydney Cove until later that day.Writer and art critic Robert Hughes popularized in the idea in his 1986 book The Fatal Shore that an orgy occurred upon the unloading of the convicts, though more modern historians regard this as untrue, since the first reference to any such indiscretions are as recent as 1963.The First Fleet encountered Indigenous Australians when they landed at Botany Bay.