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It tells of Aboriginal people coming to Australia, some of their customs, European exploration and settlement, a tribe (the Biripi people) disappearing, timber, missionaries, shipbuilding, fishing, fish, sharks, shipwrecks, floods and the lives of some of the people that make up the history of the beautiful, subtropical, coastal Australian town of Tuncurry.

Tuncurry sits on the northern side of the ocean entrance to Wallis Lake (New South Wales' largest coastal lake) about 300 kilometres (3¹/₂ hours drive) north of Sydney (between Newcastle and Port Macquarie). It is linked to its twin town of Forster by a bridge across the lake.

Also included is some history of the villages of Darawank, Failford, Nabiac, Wang Wauk, Coolongolook, Teleraree and Krambach.