northqueensland

This is a great shot!! Thanks for posting it!!

Sailboats are the best way to travel. Great photo. Awesome detail. Thanks for sharing.

Biography of the photographer Henry Mobsby

South Sea Islanders and their families moved off farms and down to the sea. Maybe this was survival, or maybe it was that Islanders were more familiar with a life of subsistence living on islands. Communities formed in places such as Ayr, Mourilyan, Innisfail, the beach and river areas of Mackay, Joskeleigh outside of Rockhampton, and Hervey Bay north of Maryborough. South Sea Islander people continued to live in small Islander communities on the outskirts of the major port towns. They lived in little shanty huts usually made of bark, slab, or grass on the banks of rivers, beach fronts, or on the land of more tolerant employers. They built little communities, families in one area, old single men usually the original Islanders, in another area, a meeting area, and an area for the healer. Islanders have continued many island customs and knowledge – they grow market gardens, know when to fish by the look of the water or the night sky, make cast nets, gather turtle eggs, and live in the extended family network. Women looked after the extended family unit while men traveled to find work as stockmen, on the railways, at meatworks, or fruit picking. Young women would go and work as maids in the local towns or on farms or large stations. Most Islander communities were heavily influenced by Christianity. Society was not very accepting of Islander children in mainstream schools. Sometimes Islander communities campaigned to get their own schools. South Sea Islanders and their descendants have played a significant role in the sugar industry, but they have made many more contributions to the development of Queensland. They also contributed to the development of farming and grazing, the maritime industry, pearling, mining, railways, and domestic services. Today many Australian South Sea Islanders are achieving and leading the way in many areas including trades, academia, nursing, teaching, politics, music, art, and sport. Source: www.qhatlas.com.au/content/australian-south-sea-islanders

Port Douglas Post Office opened on 1 September 1877.[5] It grew quickly, and at its peak Port Douglas had a population of 12,000 and 27 hotels. With the construction of the Mulligan Highway it serviced towns as far away as Herberton. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Douglas#:~:text=Port%20Douglas....