Between Rocky Creek beach and the oyster fence beach is a 12 km long section of low energy shoreline, that is backed by slowly rising slopes of the Normanby Range and fronted by tidal flats averaging 1 to 2 km wide. Where the slopes reach the shore they form a series of shallow embayments and low headlands that, together with three tidal creeks, divide the shoreline into seven beaches all linked by continuous tidal flats. A vehicle track runs behind the shore, 2 to 3 km inland, reaching the coast at Mooly Creek and east of Little Creek. Otherwise there is no development, apart from the abandoned Huttonvale outstation, located 2 km south of Mooly Creek mouth. Beaches 1296, 1297 and 1298 are the southernmost beaches on the western shore of Shoalwater Bay. Beach 1298 is a 500 m long, east facing strip of high tide sand, with an old fish (oyster) fence running for a few hundred metres out across the 1.5 km wide tidal flats. The fence forms the southern boundary. South of this point mangroves and tidal creeks dominate the bay shore. read more

Beach Length: 0.5km