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Woodgate, Burrum Coast National Park

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Woodgate Beach - Where Nature and Ocean Meet on the Sand!

Visit beautiful Woodgate Beach for the family holiday experience of a lifetime.
Beach holidays as they used to be, space for the kids or adults to ride bikes, roller blades, swim, walk, play beach football or cricket or just lie on a towel to take in the rays.
Woodgate offers it all with 18kms of pristine white sandy beach to the front and surrounded by 23,100ha of National Park with walking trails and camp sites.
After dark there are the Woodgate Club and Woodgate Hotel offering meals and other entertainment.

Tuan State Forest

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Stretching from Tin Can Bay to Boonooroo in the coastal lowlands along the Great Sandy Strait, Tuan State Forest contains some of the most extensive exotic pine plantations in Queensland. The forest also has small coastal wallum remnants along creeks and estuaries.

Tuan is a low-key holiday destination for people who love boating and fishing in the adjacent creeks and Great Sandy Strait.
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Wongi State Forest

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A string of beautiful waterholes fringed by paperbarks and rushes and surrounded by eucalypt forest and exotic pine plantations make Wongi State Forest and Forest Reserve special places to visit. Lenthalls Dam, the water supply for Hervey Bay shire, is in the heart of the forest.

Wongi is reputedly an Aboriginal word meaning snake. Tannins leached from the paperbarks stain the water in the waterholes a golden-brown colour. Reflections can often be seen in the still waters.

Lady Elliott Island

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Lady Elliot Island is the first island of the Great Barrier Reef, an unpretentious, unforgettable holiday destination, set in an idyllic natural environment, surrounded by a pristine coral lagoon.

Lady Elliot Island is regarded as one of the best snorkelling and diving locations on the Great Barrier Reef.

Lady Musgrave Island

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Lady Musgrave Island and Lagoon lies north-west of Lady Elliot Island, a 14-hectare true coral cay, surrounded by 1,192 hectares of spectacular reef.

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The forces that formed the Great Sandy Strait have created a stunning aquatic playground, perfect fo sailing, canoeing, bushwalking, bird watching and fishing, or just relaxing by the waters edge.

Three species of dolphins, the common dolphin, bottlenosed dolphin and the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin are also in residence in the area.

Poona National Park

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Low-lying coastal plains and two small islands in the Great Sandy Strait are protected in this park between the Mary River estuary and Great Sandy Strait. Poona National Park conserves valuable remnants of the wallum heath communities which flourished in the Maryborough-Hervey Bay area before settlement and land clearing.

Woody Is - Great Sandy National Park

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In the Great Sandy Straight between Fraser Island and Hervey Bay lie Woody and Little Woody Islands, which together form an undeveloped section of Great Sandy National Park.

Rocky Woody Island’s open forests and fringing mangroves are home to a variety of birds. The twin Woody Island lighthouses and associated buildings, built in 1866, remains of telegraph lines and a grave site are heritage-listed for their contribution to the maritime and settlement history of the Maryborough-Hervey Bay area.