Eagle Island is now a protected nesting site

but in the past the local Aboriginal people waded to the island and collected the cormorant eggs and later the layers of guano (bird droppings) that had built up were taken by Europeans for use as fertiliser

Are You A Lemon Or Just Nervous?

May 25th 2011
On Tuesday 24th May we were both up pretty early. We hadn’t decided where we would be headed for and all we knew was that it would be a long day in the saddle. Graham had done a lot of preparation last night and I had progressed things well “indoors” so we were ready to go by 8:30am. We headed out of Kalbarri with three possible options. Carnarvon was favourite but Denham was a strong po ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Denham

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

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