General
Lady Musgrave Island is the most intensively used of the camping islands within the Capricorn Bunker group, due to its protected anchorage within a semi-enclosed lagoon and a regular ferry service. More than 10,000 day-visitors were brought to the island by commercial tourism operators during 1997. In addition, 1,278 campers visited the island for 8,008 camper nights and there were an estimated 5840 visitors from recreational boats during that year.
It is recognised that the permitted numbers of visitors on Lady Musgrave Island at this time, have reached (and at times exceeded) an ecologically sustainable level.
This island is the only shingle cay situated on the leeward reef flat. the island also has Beach rock that is exposed along the north eastern and eastern beaches and an outcrop of lithified coral conglomerate, similar to that forming the core of the cay, occurs near the south eastern corner.
Vegetation consists of Pisonia grandis, Tournefortia argentea, Casuarina equisetifolia, and Pandanus tectorius. The vegetation is less dense than that of the larger sand cays of the Capricorn Group.
A small pond of brackish water is located towards the southern end of the cay.
The Island is located on the southern end of a large lagoon.
From a boating prospective the great part about Lady Musgrave is you can enter the lagoon via a deep water channel.
There is some conjecture as to if the channel into the lagoon is a naturally occurring phenomena, or was cut into the lagoon by Japanese fisherman, or as legend has it was widened by guano miners many years ago although it is recorded by 1938 and in 1966 surveys.
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