Beaches

The Mackay region offers a diverse coastline of city beaches just minutes from town and secluded untouched coves of coastal National Parks. Popular city beaches include Town, Illawong, Harbour, Bucasia, Blacks and Eimeo Beach. The beaches are patrolled year-round. The northern beaches around Eimeo and Dolphin Heads offer some of the best clifftop scenery, or enjoy a pub lunch at the Pacific Hotel and enjoy the incredible views.

The regions 31 beaches extend beyond the city, with the Cape Hillsborough National Park offering secluded bays and beaches, where possums, native birds and other wildlife live in the coastal bushland surrounds. Within this 816 hectare national park you will also find kangaroos hopping along the beach at sunset, as well as a myriad of hiking trails providing the opportunity to see wallabies and bush turkeys.

Then head to St Lawrence, a port which was frequented by paddle steamers in the 19th century. As part of the Serenity Coast the region also encompasses Sarina Beach and the popular Salonika Beach, home to echidnas and loggerhead turtles.