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 1297 runs for 2 km from the eastern side of the headland to a mangrove-fringed tidal creek. It consists of three sections of low beaches and backing casuarina-covered ridges, that are in turn backed by high tide salt flats. read more

Beach Length: 2km