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With the grossly hyped Gold Coast and Hinterland for competition, it's not surprising that few people bother with the country immediately surrounding Brisbane. Only 5km to the west, the city is hemmed in by Mount Coot-tha 's botanic gardens and the foothills of Brisbane Forest Park , which covers the green, wet heights of the D'Aguilar Range and stretches to the edge of Lake Wivenhoe . In the opposite direction, coastal suburbs provide access to the shallow waters of Moreton Bay , famous throughout Australia as the home of the unfortunately named Moreton Bay Bug, which is actually a small, delicious lobster-like crustacean. While Brisbane is hardly noted for its beach life, with muddy shorelines attracting mangroves rather than sun worshippers, the largest of the bay's islands, Moreton and North Stradbroke , are generously endowed with sand, and are just the right distance from the city to make their beaches accessible but seldom crowded. The island of St Helena is not somewhere you'd visit for sun and surf, but its prison ruins recall the convict era and are an interesting day-trip. In the bay itself, look for dolphins, dugong (sea cows) and humpbacked whales , which pass by in winter en route to their calving grounds up north.
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