We still say “Stradbroke Island,” even though there are two Stradbroke Islands – North and South. The reason is that originally we had one “Straddie,” but it broke apart from 1894 to 1896, the result of an incursion into a vulnerable sandy area of a wrecked ship, the detonation of the explosives it carried, andContinue reading “The early days of Stradbroke Island, in colour.”
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