North Stradbroke Island
North Stradbroke Island
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Melissa M
Queensland, Australia18 contributions
Sep. 2023 • Couples
What a beautiful piece of Australia just a 45min barge trip from Cleveland Qld. Great views, pristine water, whales, dolphins, kangaroos and cheeky kookaburras. Wonderful fishing. Happy and helpful locals. Great for families and the private get aways.
Written 30 September 2023
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Ken B
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Jun. 2023
Many tourists and indeed Queenslanders and Brisbane mainlanders don’t realise how easy it is to get to North Stradbroke Island (Straddie to the locals). Just hop on a ferry from Cleveland and you’re in Dunwich in less than half an hour. You can book on line or via Sealink’s “Go Blue” app. The island bus service meets the ferry and will take you to Point Lookout (a comfortable 20km drive away) where you can indulge in swimming, eating, walking and sightseeing.
We went in mid-June, at the start of the whale watching season, when the humpbacks are making their annual trip northwards up the coast to Hervey Bay. We saw countless whales from the cliffs at Point Lookout headland. Although a kilometre or so offshore, we could still see them expelling water from their blowholes and occasionally breaching, or showing their flippers and tails.
I recommend a stroll around the North Gorge Walk, which is quite picturesque and displays the sea’s powerful erosive action on the rock side walls of this unique gorge. This walk also permits beautiful outlooks of Frenchmans Bay to the north and the impressive Main Beach stretching out, seemingly forever, to the south.
There’s a mob of kangaroos that regularly resides in this area and we were luck to see, up close, a mother and her joey grazing near the northern end of the gorge walk. We also caught a glimpse of an osprey, looking for a fish feed off the headland.
South Gorge Beach offers safe paddling and swimming, as the shallows go a long way out. If you want to go further south to Main Beach, however, then take care to swim between the flags (where the beach is patrolled) as there are many rips and gutters.
We went in mid-June, at the start of the whale watching season, when the humpbacks are making their annual trip northwards up the coast to Hervey Bay. We saw countless whales from the cliffs at Point Lookout headland. Although a kilometre or so offshore, we could still see them expelling water from their blowholes and occasionally breaching, or showing their flippers and tails.
I recommend a stroll around the North Gorge Walk, which is quite picturesque and displays the sea’s powerful erosive action on the rock side walls of this unique gorge. This walk also permits beautiful outlooks of Frenchmans Bay to the north and the impressive Main Beach stretching out, seemingly forever, to the south.
There’s a mob of kangaroos that regularly resides in this area and we were luck to see, up close, a mother and her joey grazing near the northern end of the gorge walk. We also caught a glimpse of an osprey, looking for a fish feed off the headland.
South Gorge Beach offers safe paddling and swimming, as the shallows go a long way out. If you want to go further south to Main Beach, however, then take care to swim between the flags (where the beach is patrolled) as there are many rips and gutters.
Written 23 June 2023
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Debbie K
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Sep. 2021
Plenty of infrastructure here. Lots of things to see and do. Spectacular views abound. Easy access from Brisbane.
Written 9 September 2021
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- Hotels near North Stradbroke Island:
- (0.12 km) Sand Bark Executive Villa - North Stradbroke Island
- (0.07 km) Straddie beach cabin
- (0.12 km) Home Beach Villa - North Stradbroke Island
- (0.17 km) The Islander Holiday Resort
- (0.20 km) Allure Stradbroke Resort
- Restaurants near North Stradbroke Island:
- (0.05 km) Straddie Cafe And Bar
- (0.05 km) Straddie Eats
- (0.05 km) Straddie Eats
- (0.13 km) Point Lookout Bowls Club
- (0.21 km) Oasis On Straddie Mexican Cantina