Between Oaky Creek and Clairview is a 10 km section of east facing coast consisting of three beach ridge systems, before the coastal plain again dominates the shore at Clairview. The highway, which is 4 km inland at Oaky Creek, finally comes within 300 m of the coast at Clairview; the first time the coast is visible from the highway since Bowen, 270 km to the north, and the Gold Coast, 1850 km to the south. Clairview beach (1208) houses the only settlement on the coast south of Carmila, with nothing but the low energy beaches and mangroves of Broad Sound to the south. A 200 m high spur of the Connors Range parallels the back of the beach, as a consequence of which the highway and railway are wedged in a 300 m wide corridor between the slopes and the shore. Also contained in the corridor are a beachfront caravan park and a long camping reserve, both located on a service road that parallels the highway. The shoreline is low energy and crenulate with a coarse sand, steep, narrow high tide beach with patches of rock flats, all in lee of 2 km wide sand flats, together with a healthy scattering of mangroves for the length of the shore. The beach ends at small Tin Case Creek. read more

Beach Length: 4.5km