Sand Bay is an open, low energy, east facing bay extending south of Andrews Point for 5 km to Williamsons beach. The bay shore and much of the bay is dominated by extensive tidal sand shoals and channels, that give the bay its name. Apart from Andrews Point and two knolls, most of the shore and backing country is low and flat, with several square kilometres of mangroves backing the beaches and comprising the shore. Apart from the Cape Hillsborough Road that clips the northern bay beach and a couple of 4WD tracks across the tidal flats, there is no development on the 30 km of bay shore. Shoal Point lies 12 km south-east of Andrews Point and forms the southern end of the low energy shoreline that includes Sand Bay and Williamsons-Neils beaches. Extending for 1.5 km west of the 20 m high bedrock Shoal Point is a low energy sand spit (1103), that ends 2 km from the eastern end of Neils beach, with large, mangrove-fringed Reliance Creek in between. Extensive tidal flats extend 2 km north of the western end of the beach, narrowing toward the point where rock flats surround the beach (Fig. 4.60). A sealed road runs out to Shoal Point where there is a small residential settlement, a foreshore reserve and boat ramp, and a seawall backing part of the low energy, though dynamic, shoreline. read more

Beach Length: 1.5km