Nudgee Beach

Nudgee Beach is a foreshore suburb and beach on Moreton Bay, about 18 kilometres north-east of Brisbane CBD in Queensland. Fronting the Boondall Wetlands Reserve, it is known for extensive mudflats, mangroves and bird habitat rather than swimming. The beach features a foreshore park, picnic areas, a playground and the Tabbil-ban Dhagun boardwalk, offering views across the bay to Moreton Island and serving as a popular spot for fishing, birdwatching and family recreation.

Visitors can expect a quiet, natural bay foreshore with wide mudflats at low tide, mangroves and saltmarsh of the Boondall Wetlands rather than a sandy swimming beach. The foreshore has a grassy reserve with picnic shelters, barbecues, a playground and paved paths, plus the Tabbil-ban Dhagun boardwalk through wetlands. Activities centre on walking, cycling, fishing and crabbing, birdwatching, photography, kite flying and dog walking, with views across Moreton Bay to Moreton Island.

The area is traditionally part of Turrbal Country. The name Nudgee is derived from an Aboriginal word often interpreted as place of ducks. European settlement developed as a small fishing and seaside village in the late 19th century. The adjoining Boondall Wetlands were later protected as a reserve to conserve Moreton Bay's tidal wetlands and were formally established as Boondall Wetlands Reserve in 1990.

The wetlands and foreshore hold cultural significance for the Turrbal people as a traditional resource area. Today the Boondall Wetlands and Nudgee Beach are valued as a natural and educational landscape, with the Boondall Wetlands Environment Centre providing interpretation of Aboriginal heritage and wetland ecology for visitors.