Granite Bay QLD

Beach

Noosa Head is a 50 m high basalt headland located 2 km east of Noosa Beach. Between the beach and head is a 3 km long rocky shoreline backed by the steep slopes of the Noosa National Park, with a road, car park, then walking track out to the head.... Read more

Noosa Head is a 50 m high basalt headland located 2 km east of Noosa Beach. Between the beach and head is a 3 km long rocky shoreline backed by the steep slopes of the Noosa National Park, with a road, car park, then walking track out to the head. In along the base of the north facing slopes are four small pocket beaches.Granite Bay (1535) lies another 500 m on around another point, and is also accessible via the same walking track. It has a more continuous, 80 m long cobble and boulder high tide beach and a sandy low tide sand bar.

Swimming

These four beaches and their backing walking track are very popular with walkers, sunbakers and surfers, who walk out to ride the various breaks along this shore. In summer they are crowded with sunbakers and swimmers, while surfers fly by on the intervening point breaks.

Surfing

This section of coast provides Noosa with its world famous point breaks. There are five recognised breaks on each of the points; beginning out at Granite on the eastern side of Granite Bay, and again off Tea Tree Bay, Boiling Pot point, along the boulder shore paralleling the car park, called National Park, and finally off Johnson Point, called Jonhsons. A larger east to south swell is required to get all the points working, with length of ride also increasing with swell size.

Fishing

The rocky points also are a favourite spot for usually relatively safe rock fishing, however be careful out on Noosa Head, as the rocks are steeper and more exposed.

General

This section of shore, with its four small, pandana-lined beaches, five point surfing breaks and backing national park, is one of Australia's most scenic and most popular. It is a delightful spot, which accounts for the crowds that flock there year round.