LAKE MACQUARIE
“WE’VE BEEN LUCKY enough to befriend this dolphin who follows us around from job to job,” Jarryd Duffey explains as he drives home after a day on the water. “Every time I see someone in town they ask how the dolphin is going.”
It’s not every day that a marine mammal, who’s been named Miami, becomes your business buddy, but Jarryd lives and works at Lake Macquarie, a place of wild oceans, serene lakes, mountains and endless beaches.
After years in the mining industry, the 30-year-old pursued his dream of working on the water. Now the owner and a skipper of Lake Macquarie Moorings and Marine Services, Jarryd loves every minute of his job, where he encounters small sharks, big stingrays and the occasional seal as well as his dolphin companion, who he can identify by the scar above her right eye.
Lake Macquarie is located a 90 minute drive north of Sydney on the shores of a
