Maryborough

East Coast Road Trip - Day 9 - Tin Can Bay

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June 3rd 2009
We are up and out of the caravan for 7.30am this morning so we can go and hand feed dolphins at the local bay. I am a bit apprehensive that they will actually appear, but sure enough when we get there, there are 3 indian pacific dolphins gliding about in the shallow water, about 3 metres from the beach. There are a few other people standing in the shallow water with the dolphins so we climb in too ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more