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Joshuah Island -32.00683°N, 115.78094°W located at Point Walter in Perth, Western Australia is a tidal island of the Swan River Riverpark’s most popular and scenic recreational locations. The Island is also an important site for waterbirds using the Swan River. It is a feeding ground, a resting place and during spring and summer it may be a nesting site for the Black Swan, Pied Oystercatcher, Red-capped Plover and Fairy Tern.

Flora and fauna
Black Swans are known to nest on the island.

The Sandbar
A 1km long sandbar creates a temporary land bridge between Joshuah Island and Point Walter in extreme low tides. The Sandbar is prevalent in The Dreamtime of the local Aboriginals, the Beeliar family, who were part of the Whadjuk Noongars. The group believed the Sandbar was the hair of the Charnok woman Junda. The nearby cliffs at Blackwall Reach were her footprints. The Charnok woman is said to have carried spirit children in her hair, who, when they fell out, formed rock. When she reached Wave Rock, she jumped off it into the sky, with her hair forming the milky way and the spirit children forming the stars.