Haliday Bay

History

The bay was named after "Captain" George Haliday, an Irish-born ship's engineer who served in the Royal Navy. He selected Portion 1371 in the Parish of Ossa in 1883. He collected built a coral-stone house with a thatched roof on the selection using stones he had collected from the beach and lived there until 1887. The house was called Bellbrook or Bell Brook. Haliday died in Melbourne in 1935. Historically it has also been written as Halliday Bay.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the north-west and north by the Coral Sea and to the north-east by the bay Haliday Bay (). Ball Bay Road forms most of the locality's eastern boundary, while Cape Hillsborough Road forms its southern boundary. The centre and east of the locality is within the Cape Hillsborough National Park which extends into the neighbouring locality of Ball Bay. The land is mostly low-lying with elevations of above sea level but there is one unnamed hill which rises to in the north-east of the locality near the boundary with Ball Bay. The land use in the south of the locality is predominantly growing sugarcane, while the north of the locality near the sea is divided between suburban housing with the Haliday Bay Golf Course fronting onto the sandy beach of the bay Haliday Bay.

Most-observed species

• Australasian Figbird

  Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 · Aves
  312
• Laughing Kookaburra

  Dacelo novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783) · Aves
  306
• Bar-shouldered Dove

  Geopelia humeralis (Temminck, 1821) · Aves
  258
• Spangled Drongo

  Dicrurus bracteatus Gould, 1843 · Aves
  229
• Masked Lapwing

  Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  216
• Varied Triller

  Lalage leucomela (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) · Aves
  207
• Silver Gull

  Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) · Aves
  196
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  190