yachts at tin can bay

Tin Can Bay, Dolphins, and Houseboat Mike

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December 12th 2012
Tin Can Bay, is off the southern edge of Queensland's Fraser Island, and is a large horseshoe shaped bay, affording natural refuge for yachties, houseboats, fisherman and a friendly pod of dolphins that call the bay home. Legend has it that a dolphin injured by a boat prop, was rescued and nursed back to health by a local villager in the 1950's, it subsequently returned with its pod every day a ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Tin Can Bay

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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