Moreton Bay Marine Park Is a natural wonderland

Moreton Bay Marine Park and its Dolphins and whales

Moreton Bay, stretching 125km from Caloundra to the Gold Coast, is one of Queensland's most important natural, recreational, cultural and economic resources. The Bay offers a diversity of foreshore and offshore features, seascapes and landscapes, relatively safe boating and wide scope for recreational activities on the water and nearby. Some areas have significant Aboriginal and European cultural heritage values.

Sovereign Islands Port activities, commercial fishing and growing recreation and tourism industries provide jobs and income for some of the 15 million people living and working in the Moreton region.

Moreton Bay remains mostly in its natural state an internationally significant wetland providing habitats crucial for migratory shorebirds, turtles and dugong.

Moreton Bay Marine Park was was declared in 1993 and extended in 1997 to cover most of Moreton Bay's tidal lands and tidal waters seawards to the limit of Queensland waters. The boundary is generally three nautical miles off the east coast of Bribie, Moreton, North Stradbroke and South Stradbroke Islands. Along the mainland and around the islands, the boundary is the line of the highest astronomical tide. Freehold land is not included unless the owner has agreed.