The city of Mackay is located on the southern side of the Pioneer River mouth. Most of the city is located on river mouth floodplains of the Pioneer. Toward the coast the floodplain is, and in places was, fronted by a few hundred metres of mangroves, then a series of low beaches and dunes that form a 7 km section of east facing shore from the river mouth south to Bakers Creek mouth. Since the 1960's a great deal of the mangrove areas have been infilled for residential development and Town and Far beaches developed for residential, recreational and tourist facilities. The northern beach (1119) lies in lee of the South Wall of the river mouth. It is an 800 m long beach, backed by low beach ridges and mangroves and fronted by up to 3 km of intertidal sand flats. To date there has been no development on the beach, although it is earmarked for tourist development. read more

Beach Length: 0.8km