Finch Bay is 2 km by road from downtown Cooktown, and with vehicle access and a small car park, it is Cooktown’s swimming beach. The beach is 500 m long and faces north-east. It is partly protected from the Trade winds by high, densely vegetated, granite headlands. Alligator Creek crosses the centre of the beach, with its tidal channel tending to meander across the southern half of the beach. The car park is beside the creek, with a short walk to the beach. There is a narrow dry beach at high tide, fronted by sand flats up to 500 m wide at low tide. These are flat on the northern half of the beach, and cut by the tidal creek on the southern half. There is also a small climbing sand dune behind the northern end. read more

Beach Length: 0.4km