At Amity Point, where the beach shoals quickly, and the fish often swim too far out to be surrounded by the men without going out of their depth, the blacks had managed to make friends with the grey porpoises so that the latter assisted in the business. On a signal being made from the beach by beating the water with a spear, the porpoises would swim shorewards driving the fish before them, and help to form the surrounding circle. The co-operative principle was so...

November on the long sandy curve of beach that stretchesfifteen kilometres from Coolum to Noosa National Park.Here lie the fallen muttonbirds.Thousands of dark, neglected shapes form the wreck.No sound or signal to show they arrived. No squawk, shrill or chirrup from the birds in their dying moments.This is the silent resignation of the short tailed shearwater.Slender bills point skywards to their defeat.Dark, smokey feathers have lost the gloss of determination....