North Stradbroke traditional owner Andrew Watego is pointing at a pod of bottlenose dolphins 50 metres from where we’re standing ankle-deep on the seashore. “My people (the Quandamooka people) used them for thousands of years,” he says. “They’d herd the fish to the beach, and our women would wait there with baskets to scoop them up.”

What I’d do for a bit of dolphin collaboration right now. I’m the inaugural guest on south-east Queensland’s first Indigenous fishing tour, but I haven’t had a bite so far.