Making the trek out to beautiful Mon Repos Beach with the family? Sounds the perfect time for a few terrible turtle jokes!
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Watching tiny turtle hatchlings make their way down the beach, or the steady path of a mother turtle making her way up the sand to lay her precious clutch of eggs, is truly a 'bucket list' moment – and one that you certainly don't get to experience every day!
Every year, hundreds of turtles make their way back to Mon Repos Beach – the site of their own hatching, to produce the next crop of teeny tiny turtles.
The story behind Mary and Terry's Hill of Promise Winery is much more than just the dream to make wine, but a reminder of a grandfather's legacy to his grandson.
You'll find a fisher's paradise upstream in the Kolan River, at the overflow of freshwater from Monduran Dam. In the floods of the past few years, Barramundi washed over the dam wall and now inhabit the top freshwater sections of the river. There are days when it is nothing to catch 6-8 Barra in a morning session.
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