Dog off leash area is right next to the horse exercise area so this beach is suitable for horses and hounds that are comfortable with each others company

Admire the sailboats while having a splash with your dog at this 24h off leash Dog Friendly Beach!

Dogs are welcome to exercise off leash between 5am-8am and 5pm-8pm everyday in the area between Williams Ave and Symons Ave

Dogs are welcome to exercise off leash between 5am-8am and 5pm-8pm everyday.

Just south of Emu Park on the northern banks of Coorooman Creek is the growing township of Zilzie. Zilzie Beach is the longest and most accessible of the three beaches. It is 600m long and has finer sand than […]

Wave Point beach begins on the southern side of the Ross Creek groyne and curves around for 500m, with a roughly north-east orientation. There are rocks on the beach, which ends against the rocky, 20m high Wave […]

The main road backs the reserve, with a few houses on the other side of the road. The beach consists of a coarse, steep, sand and cobble high tide beach fronted by low tide rock flats, including a few mangroves on […]

Alligator Bay and Stanage Bays are two bays south of the eastern Arthur Point. The two bays face north-east and are backed by mainly cleared, gently rising land, with the main Stanage Bay Road running less than […]

The two main surfing beaches immediately south of Emu Point were called Ladies and Mens Beaches. The small Ladies Beach still goes by that name, while Mens is now known as Emu Park Main Beach and is the site of […]

The creek that used to drain across the northern end of the beach has been dammed by The Causeway and the tidal flats are still readjusting to the absence of the tidal currents that flowed in and out of the creek. […]

The Sands are surrounded by Cawarral Creek to the north, extensive tidal flats to the east and the long, swampy beach ridges of Cattle Point to the south, while mangrove-filled tidal creeks make up much of the […]

Keppel Sands is a quiet beach settlement located 15km off the Emu Park Road and 40 km from Rockhampton. The Keppel Sands Main Beach is 1.3km long, faces east and is bounded by the northern 40m high, conical […]

Fishermans Beach offers generally low, spilling waves that are usually higher on Tanby Beach. Fishermans Beach is somewhat protected by the point and receives low waves in the south, rising to less than 0.5m to […]

Farnborough Beach is composed of fine sand and exposed to waves averaging 0.8 metres. These factors maintain a low narrow high tide beach fronted by a 200 metre-wide, low gradient low tide beach. Waves spill […]

Located on the southern side of Wave Point is Cooee Bay, a 500 metre long, curving beach extending from the point to the southern Wreck Point. The beach is bordered by 20 metre high headlands with rocky platforms […]

Cocoanut Beach is a low, rocky point that runs for 1km between Zilzie and Cocoanut Point. The beach faces south-east but is protected from high waves by the sand flats. It is one of three Emu Park beaches.

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Castle Bellas beach is one of three southernmost Emu Park beaches. It is a 3.5 kilometre long beach with low energy, running to the south-west from Cocoanut Point to the mouth of Cawarral Creek.

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At Cattle Point the shoreline turns south and is called Rundles Beach. Consisting of a low energy beach backed by a 3 km truncated series of beach ridges, housing a few fishing shacks at the southern end.

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Barwell Creek is one of the longer beaches on the Capricorn Coast with good access points as well as many kilometres of natural beach.

Dogs are welcome off leash between 4pm – 8am