Getting to and from North Stradbroke Island:

Travelling to Stradbroke Island by ferry takes around 40 minutes with the boats leaving from Toondah Harbour in Cleveland.

The Big Red Cat costs $135 return and you can take as many passengers as your car will legally allow for no extra cost. The Big Red Cat has an airconditioned, licensed cafe and features TV to keep the troops occupied - just in case the view out onto Moreton Bay isn't enough!

Stradbroke Ferries (also $135 return) have been servicing Straddie and the other Southern Moreton Bay Islands for around 3 decades, and provide both car and passenger ferry transport with regular time tables and the Minjerribah (pictured below) boasting an airconditioned cabin with a licensed cafe.

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Big Red Cat - operators of a magnificent new car ferry over to Straddie - onlinebooking available

Stradbroke Flyer - high speed passenger water taxi. No bookings needed - just turn up.

Stradbroke Ferries - both car and passenger ferries - online booking available

If you do not have a car, catch the air conditioned train from Central Station in Brisbane to the last station - Cleveland. There is a free shuttle bus to the ferry terminal. Train Time Table and Fares here.

Travel by high speed water taxi from the bayside village of Clevelend to Dunwich, and catch the North Stradbroke Island bus to Point Lookout where you can hire a quality mountain bike and binoculars.

From there you use the detailed map of Point Lookout, together with a whale idenitifcation chart, and visit the series of whale watching platforms situated high above the surf on Whale Rock, Frenchmans, Deadmans and Cylinder headlands.

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