Nudey Beach
Boulder-framed cove on a rainforest island, prized for calm swimming and snorkelling.
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This guide to Nudey Beach on Fitzroy Island, near Cairns, traces the older name the Gunggandji people gave this stretch of coast long before Captain Cook sailed past in seventeen seventy. It follows a dreamtime story about an ancestor named Gulnyjarubay and a rising sea, and asks what an oral memory carried for thousands of years is worth against a geologist's core sample. Best heard sitting on the boulders at the water's edge in the early morning quiet.
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