The district was first settled in the 1840s, and has a rich history of squatting and fishing.

The Flinders Cable Station Walk, which traverses the foreshore area, commemorates the establishment, in 1869, of a telegraph station which connected mainland Australia and Tasmania. The cable initially terminated at a receiving station near the jetty. Morse code messages were then conveyed by hand from the receiving station to the staff house halfway up the cliff ... (more)