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Southern Moreton Bay Islands cruising guide

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Canaipa Passage to South Passage · 5 guidesLast checked: 18 October 2026Report a correction

Between the Broadwater and Cleveland lies a maze of islands, banks and channels: the Canaipa Passage, Russell and Macleay islands, Coochiemudlo, Peel Island and Dunwich on North Stradbroke, with South Passage opening to the sea between Straddie and Moreton Island. It's beautiful, shallow, tidal country, best enjoyed in a shoal-draft boat on a rising tide. MSQ's Southern Moreton Bay maps are the oldest in the series (May 2016) and the banks move, so the pages here flag how old each fact is.

Map of the Southern Moreton Bay Islands region (Canaipa Passage to South Passage) with a numbered marker for each of its 5 cruising guide pages.
Numbers match the guide list below. Each name links to its page. Positions are approximate. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Positions are approximate and for orientation only. Not a chart. Not for navigation.
  1. 1Canaipa Passage & Redland Bay · Passage + islands + ferry harbours
  2. 2Victoria Point & Coochiemudlo · Island anchorage + slipway
  3. 3Cleveland & Raby Bay · Marina + anchorage
  4. 4Peel Island & Dunwich · Anchorage + island harbour
  5. 5South Passage Bar & Amity · Bar crossing + anchorages

Guides in this region, south to north

Canaipa Passage & Redland Bay

Passage + islands + ferry harbours

Canaipa Passage, Russell, Macleay, Lamb and Karragarra islands, Weinam Creek and the Logan River mouth: hazards, ramps, moorings.

Last checked: 18 October 2026 ⚠ 1 item flagged unverified

Victoria Point & Coochiemudlo

Island anchorage + slipway

Coochiemudlo Island and Victoria Point: mooring areas, ferry jetties, VMR Victoria Point and Redland City Marina's slipway at Eprapah Creek.

Last checked: 18 October 2026

Cleveland & Raby Bay

Marina + anchorage

Raby Bay Marina, the Cleveland Point anchorage, the Toondah Harbour no-anchoring zone, VMR Raby Bay and ramps. Not for navigation.

Last checked: 18 October 2026 ⚠ 1 item flagged unverified

Peel Island & Dunwich

Anchorage + island harbour

Peel Island, Horseshoe Bay, Dunwich and the Rous and Rainbow channels: reefs, no-anchoring zones, moorings and ferry jetties.

Last checked: 18 October 2026

South Passage Bar & Amity

Bar crossing + anchorages

South Passage bar is dangerous and for local knowledge only. Tidal streams, freak-wave warnings, Amity and the Point Lookout anchorage.

Last checked: 18 October 2026

Entrances from the sea

Before any bar crossing, read MSQ's bar advice and the current notices to mariners. Depths on bars change between surveys.

Neighbouring regions

About these guides

These are planning notes written by a working delivery skipper from public sources: MSQ maps and notices, NGA Pub. 127 and OpenStreetMap. They are not for navigation. Use the official AHO charts, current MSQ notices to mariners, official tide tables and local advice. Each page shows when its facts were last checked and flags anything dated or unconfirmed.

Sources & credits

Maritime Safety Queensland. Contains Maritime Safety Queensland data (Beacon to Beacon guide, notices to mariners, nav-aid open data, pump-out map C2-335, speed-limit schedule, tide information) © State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Facts restated and summarised in our own words. Not endorsed by MSQ or TMR.

Queensland legislation. Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Regulation 2016 and Transport Infrastructure (Waterways Management) Regulation 2012 © State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0. Summarised; the authorised versions at legislation.qld.gov.au prevail.

NGA. Background from NGA Pub. 127, Sailing Directions (Enroute) East Coast of Australia and New Zealand (2025), U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a US Government work in the public domain. Parts of it are out of date; where a page leans on it, we say so. Not endorsed by NGA.

OpenStreetMap. Map tiles and some facility positions © OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Others. Facts from local authority pages and notices (for example the Gold Coast Waterways Authority), volunteer marine rescue sites and businesses' own websites are cited for fact only and restated in our own words. Listing a business is not an endorsement.

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