noosa-heads

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6.10             SEA WALL, NOOSA BEACH
LOCATION               Main Beach

TENURE                 Reserve. 3CP862568

DATES                  1940

DESCRIPTION            A quartzite and granite boulder rock wall running the entire length of Noosa Beach for a
                       distance in excess of one kilometre




6.10.1   BRIEF HISTORY
For at least one hundred years prior to the late 1960s, the Noosa Beach estuary system was in dynamic equilibrium. The
earliest surveys of the area were hydrographic charts dated 1870 when George Heath, the Queensland Port Master
produced a plan for ‘Nusa Harbour’. These were carried out to support navigation into the Noosa River for the purposes
of transport of primary goods out of the region and transport of prospectors heading for the Gympie goldfields.
The details of the Noosa River entrance and spit shown in 1876 on Commander Edward Parker Bedwell and Lt. E. R.
Connor’s charts are very similar to the features evident in later plans and photographs of the area. The entrance was
located at the site of the present day Noosa Woods. The main channel meandered through a complex flood tidal delta
from Munna Point, taking a northerly route before turning east and discharging to the north of Laguna Bay. Noosa spit
had a dunal system with dense casuarinas on the back dune. The fore dune was bare and the beach wider in
comparison with today. Hay’s Island was well developed with large timber and well-established vegetation.