Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 36
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been my good fortune to see Dad for a minute say it is as good as SYDNEY harbour, but it is ever so much bigger, & the natural beauties, leave those of Sydney Harbour a long way behind. There are numerous pretty little fertile islands. There are two deep channels in from GATCOMBE HEADS, & water up to 75 fathoms deep. Any boat can come in at any tide. Who has stood on AUCKLAND HILL, & seen the Sun set over parts of the harbour, & MT LARCOMBE have never seen anything like it about Sydney, & there are not hundreds, but there are thousands of pretty places about Sydney. The most beautiful are the heights near MIDDLE HARBOUR overlooking MANLY & the HEADS.
It is a "bonsa" harbour to go boating in up GRAHAMS CREEK, we read many years ago, how the Abos & the PORPOISE used to work together to catch fish. The porpoise drove them in towards the shore, & as they jumped for safety the blacks knocked them with