Once Keppel Sands went by the name of The Sandhills. Sandhills along the beach front were about all there was, until a sleepy town midst sugar cane plantations started to emerge. That's all changing these days, particularly since real estate started going 'through the roof'.
The majority of the sugar cane plantations have all but gone and a different community has developed, partly due to tourism, to a burgeoning real estate market and, one would imagine, to fishing. The town is set on a tidal stretch of water and that makes for good crabbing and fishing.
A 'must visit' is the Joskeleigh South Pacific Museum which highlights the role played by the Kanakas, brought out by the 'blackbirders' to work the sugar cane fields as indentured labour.
There's a good picnic area beachside.
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