From the 1850's the Manning River saw much boating activity with steamers such as the North Coast Steam Navigation Company's steamer Maianbar regularly servicing the river as far upstream as Wingham. Getting over the bar at Harrington was always a challenge but later with the aid of Tug Boats like the John Gollan, built by Captain Hector Gollan at Tinonee and launched in 1889, quite large boats were able to enter the river.br/Of course many did not make it and the list of shipwrecks off the Manning coast and its 2 river bars is long.br/This section of river from the old Peters Wharf to the Peeress Wharf is more famous for its rich cream boat history. Both milk factories used cream boats (or milk boats) to service the farms along the river with the milk picked up and transported in stainless steel drums to the two factory wharves and then to the factories for pasteurisation and for cheese making.br/Many cream boats would have plied these waters daily. Today the only sound on the river is the odd fishermans tinnie and the sound of pelicans wings taking off near the Fish Co-op.