Stansbury Museum

Stansbury was called Oyster Bay until 1873, and the little museum on North Terrace explains why. Housed in the stone schoolhouse and attached teacher's residence built in 1878, it keeps the town's layered story: the Narungga coast, the sheep-run years after Alfred Weaver arrived in 1846, the oyster dredging boom that gave the bay its first name, and the slow settling into farming and seaside holidays.

The displays are lovingly local — maritime tools and shipping relics, a recreated schoolroom with its desks and slates, domestic rooms furnished as they would have been, and albums of photographs that regulars pore over looking for grandparents. The oyster story is the museum's heart: at the trade's height more than a dozen dredging boats worked the bay, until the wild beds gave out late in the nineteenth century.

Opening times are limited (volunteer-run, with regular weekly openings and daily hours in January), so check locally — then walk it off along the Stansbury Foreshore Walk, where today's farmed oysters grow in the same clean water.