Adder Rock Beach is accessed through a 4WD track next to Adder Rock campground. This beach provides an attractive spot for swimming, and is popular with campers and four wheel drivers. However, there is a side sweep which may carry you parallel to the beach. Adder Rock is not a patrolled beach.
Tours & Attractions
Adder Rock
Further Information
Amity Point
Further InformationOn the western side of the island, Amity Point and Dunwich offer sandy beaches and calm water for swimming and great fishing. Amity and Dunwich both have swimming enclosures however these beaches are not patrolled.
Beach yoga
Further InformationStart the day in a positive way with beach yoga, held on Home Beach daily during the school holidays and most weekends.
Care for Dunes & Beaches
Further Information- Dunes and beaches can be extremely fragile. The sparse and inconspicuous dunal vegetation is often all that is stopping the dunes from becoming mobile and moving inland. To drive on the beach at Stradbroke, you must obtain a permit first.
- Annual 4WD beach permits can be purchased from Straddie Camping, either online or at the Dunwich, Cylinder or Adder Rock offices.
- Be aware, the rules of the road a
Cylinder Beach
Further InformationCylinder Beach is a picturesque cove between Cylinder and Home Beach Headlands. It is popular with families because it is easily accessible with a carpark situated only metres from the beach.
Deadmans Beach and Frenchmans Beach are secluded spots nestled between North Gorge and Cylinder Beach. These beaches are great places to explore the rock pools where you can see small fish, anemones, shells and crabs. There are no lifesaving patrols on these beaches.
Diving
North Stradbroke Island has some of the best dive sites in South East Queensland, just a few hundred metres from shore. The reefs surrounding Point Lookout are home to turtles, dolphins, whales, manta rays and reef fish. Try snorkelling or scuba diving.
Dunwich Cemetery
The Dunwich Cemetery is the second oldest cemetery in Queensland. A walk through provides an insight into the different people that have stepped on the shores of North Stradbroke Island and have made it their final resting place.
Dunwich Newsagent
Location: 5 Ballow Road, Dunwich
Phone: 3409 9200
Open: 7 Days
- Monday to Friday: 6.00am to 5.00pm
- Saturday: 6.00am to 2.30pm
- Sunday: 6.00am t0 3.30pm
Fishing
North Stradbroke Island, or Straddie as it is known, boasts a range of fishing options envied by many other locations. The diverse types of fishing available ranges from the bread and butter species of tailor, bream, whiting and flathead from the beaches, through to the more specialised offshore species of mackerel, Wahoo and marlin. Straddie is unique in that it has fishing available from its