Caboolture, Queensland AU Webcam

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Caboolture is considered to be the northernmost urban area of the greater Brisbane metropolitan region within South East Queensland.

The Caboolture area is the traditional home of the Kabi Aboriginal people. The name “Kabultur” is derived from the Yugarabul dialect meaning “place of the carpet snake”. The Kabi people harvested bush food, fresh water mussels, oysters, fish, and some game animals, moving around the land to take best advantage of seasonally-available produce.

Each year in March, the Kabi people would hold Bunya Festivals to feast on the plentiful and nutritious annual nuts of the Bunya Pine. These huge trees provided a food source which could sustain large numbers of people.

The Caboolture area was first settled in 1842 when the land around the Moreton Bay penal colony was opened up to free settlers. Timber was the principal industry of the area until the 1860s. The valuable red cedar, now very rare in the Shire, provided a good income for the timber loggers. The massive logs were rafted down the Caboolture River to Deception Bay, from where they were taken by steamer to Brisbane.