The backdrop resembles sugar cane. Twelve thousand "kanakas" as they were called, were brought into the area around Hervey Bay, initially by one Captain Coath. A government agent, Meiklejohn, was sent to check that the recruiting was fair. During this trip, the Captain put the agent in chains where he stayed for the remainder of the voyage.
Limited parking is available on the roadside or at the ferry departure point. For guests staying at Kingfisher Bay Resort, you can book secure parking and the resort will shuttle you to the ferry departure point. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service permits are required for driving and camping on the island and we advise all visitors to check the QPWS Conditions report pre-arrival.
Drivers should be aware of tide times and keep off the beach for two hours either side of high tide. Fraser Island Fraser Island is famous as the world's largest sand island. If you have a 4WD then the answer is simple: travel across to the island by ferry and explore it at your leisure. It really is one of the wonders of the world.
Cook did not sail into Hervey Bay. In fact he was some 6 km offshore as he sailed north. He was the first European to step ashore at Hervey Bay. He identified Fraser Island but could not find a channel between it and the mainland. He worked cutting timber and it is likely that he was the first person to grow sugar cane in the area. Coal mining started at Howard in this year. In fact he was some 6 km offshore as he sailed north. This did not stop him naming the bay after the 'English Casanova', Augustus John Hervey, a sailor of some note who acquired a fierce reputation as a womaniser.
Matthew Flinders passed through the area twice. In , Flinders sailed around Fraser Island entering the bay and going ashore at the present site of Dayman Park. He was the first European to step ashore at Hervey Bay. It is one of the ironies of history that Flinders, who returned to the area in on his historic circumnavigation of the Australia, did not located the Fraser Island Straits on either of his voyages.
The first settlement of Hervey Bay occurred in the s. Hervey Bay was originally part of a cattle station, the Toogoom Run, which was settled in The first permanent white settler at Hervey Bay was Boyle Martin who, with his wife and child, arrived in He worked cutting timber and it is suggested that he was the first person to grow sugar cane in the area. By the first subdivision of land around Hervey Bay took place.
The attractions of the area were obvious. In a railway line was constructed from Maryborough to Pialba, boosting tourism. This line was extended to Urangan in and the Urangan Pier was built in to facilitate the export of sugar and later coal. By the s the Hervey Bay area was rapidly expanding due to continuing growth in the primary industries sugar cane, citrus, pineapples, beef cattle, fishing and investment in transport infrastructure.
Regular air services from Brisbane commenced in The s also saw the completion of a fully bituminised road connecting Maryborough and Urangan which encouraged further economic and population growth. The local authority area called Hervey Bay was initially known as the Burrum Shire. The Council offices were located in Maryborough. The opening of a railway from Pialba to Maryborough in gave sugar growers improved access to the large Maryborough sugar mill and Maryborough residents readier access to the seaside.
As early as the s a Maryborough promoter had subdivided foreshore allotments at Torquay-by-the-sea west of Urangan. Whilst premature, his investment was a foretaste of the coast's tourism potential.
Torquay was a favourite spot for beach picnics and the long Urangan pier was a favourite promenade. The census populations of these places, including part of Nikenbah, were in and in In the next census year, , the population was recorded under the descriptor 'Hervey Bay'.
Its suburbs were Point Vernon dress circle of the bay , Pialba shopping centre , Scarness and Torquay holiday areas , and Urangan fishing.
Foreshore camping continued and caravanning increased - 'Hervery Bay, caravan capital of Australia'.
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