Wide Bay Bar is a designated coastal bar and it is compulsory to wear a life jacket when crossing in an open boat less than 4.8m in length

Beacon to Beacon Guide Latitude/Longitude

Great Sandy Strait, Map GSS-10 25°48'11.19"S, 153° 4'3.00"E

Nearest Limited Coast Station

Coastguard Tin Can Bay

Hours of operation 27 MHz VHF MF/HF Telephone

0600 – 1800, 7 days 88, 90 16, 67, 80, 82 - 07 5486 4290

Warning – Wide Bay Bar is dangerous and should not be crossed except with local knowledge. Conditions on the bar can vary rapidly with changes in tide height and direction, ocean swell and prevailing winds. Extreme caution should be exercised when crossing the bar in the afternoon, especially from seaward when the sun may make the leading lights difficult to see. Ebb tide combined with a south east swell or sea may cause significant waves to form on the bar and break on the adjacent banks.

Wide Bay Bar is a designated coastal bar and it is compulsory to wear a life jacket when crossing in an open boat less than 4.8m in length

Beacon to Beacon Guide Latitude/Longitude

Great Sandy Strait, Map GSS-10 25°48'11.19"S, 153° 4'3.00"E

Nearest Limited Coast Station

Coastguard Tin Can Bay

Hours of operation 27 MHz VHF MF/HF Telephone

0600 – 1800, 7 days 88, 90 16, 67, 80, 82 - 07 5486 4290

Warning – Wide Bay Bar is dangerous and should not be crossed except with local knowledge. Conditions on the bar can vary rapidly with changes in tide height and direction, ocean swell and prevailing winds. Extreme caution should be exercised when crossing the bar in the afternoon, especially from seaward when the sun may make the leading lights difficult to see. Ebb tide combined with a south east swell or sea may cause significant waves to form on the bar and break on the adjacent banks.