About Bribie

Park features

Bribie Island National Park and Recreation Area features sand dunes, heaths, paperbark wetlands, open forests, woodlands, freshwater creeks and lagoons.

Tidal wetlands and waters around Bribie Island are protected as part of Moreton Bay Marine Park. Fish, crabs and prawns breed in Pumicestone Passage and dugong feed on its seagrass communities. In early 2022, a new coastal bar was cut through Bribie Island 2kms from the northern end of Bribie Island Recreation Area, separating the park into two sections. This fragile section of Bribie Island is part of the Moreton Bay Ramsar site with the sand banks providing vital roosting and feeding sites for resident and migratory shorebirds.

Cultural heritage includes shell middens and other evidence of Aboriginal people's traditional use of the area, and weathered structures remaining from the World War II coastal defence system.

• Read more about the nature, culture and history of Bribie Island National Park and Recreation Area.

Looking after the park

Wherever you explore, minimise your impact. Terrestrial and marine plants and animals depend on us to keep land, ocean and estuarine areas clean.

• Take your rubbish with you when you leave.
• Don't use shampoos and soaps in or near waterways.
• In areas where toilets are not provided, bring a portable enclosed toilet. Please do not empty the contents of chemical toilets in the toilet facilities as is stops the systems from functioning. Portable toilet waste disposal points are located at Poverty Creek camping area and on access ‘P’ near the toilets in the Ocean Beach camping area. If bush toileting, go at least 50m from creeks and bury human waste and toilet paper 30cm deep. Bag all personal hygiene products including disposable nappies and take them home for appropriate disposal in rubbish bins.
• Visitors are reminded that the northern breakaway section is part of the national park and recreation area. Dogs, fires and camping are prohibited from this section of the recreation area.
• When boating, go slowly over seagrass beds—dugongs feed here. Observe the go slow areas (PDF, 5.8MB) for natural values in Tripcony Bight – Long Island (MNP02) and Westaways Creek (MNP01) marine national park zones.
• When driving, stay on tracks and off the dunes. Fore dunes are important habitat for wildlife. Shorebirds lay their eggs on the sand and marine turtles bury eggs in the sand.
• Obey signs and regulations—they are in place to protect this area for conservation and nature-based recreation.

See caring for parks for more information about protecting our environment and heritage in parks.

Park management

Bribie Island Recreation Area, which was declared in 2005, includes Bribie Island National Park, the beach area to low-water mark and some state government and Moreton Bay Regional Council owned land. The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service manages this area under the Recreation Areas Management Act 2006 and Nature Conservation Act 1992 for the purposes of nature conservation and nature-based recreation.

A management plan for Bribie Island National Park and Recreation Area will be prepared in the future.

Tourism information links

For more information about Bribie Island accommodation, activities and tours contact:

Bribie Island Visitor Information Centre
www.visitmoretonbayregion.com.au
Benabrow Avenue, Bongaree, Bribie Island
Phone: (07) 3408 9026

For tourism information for all regions in Queensland see Queensland Holidays.