Toondah Harbour is the ferry and barge terminal for North Stradbroke Island, and the public boat ramps sit on its southern side off Emmett Drive. Two concrete lanes at a ten per cent grade, toilets and a tap, and a car park of about 49 rigs that competes with ferry passengers on holiday weekends. The state register lists the ramps as usable on all tides, thanks to the dredged harbour channel.
The water outside the harbour is shallow, as Toondah and the Cleveland foreshore sit on wide mud and seagrass flats, so keep to the marked channel out to the deeper water off Peel Island, and give the vehicle ferries and water taxis room; they run all day. Six knots applies in and around the harbour.
The harbour has been the subject of Walker Corporation's redevelopment proposals since 2014. The original $1.4 billion scheme was refused in 2024 and a scaled-back plan for an upgraded port, apartments and a sheltered boat ramp with about 30 trailer bays was put forward in 2025; nothing has changed on the ground yet. Raby Bay's William Street ramps are the larger alternative nearby. Marine Rescue Queensland Raby Bay monitors VHF 16.
A note on these photographs
The photographs above are from Wikimedia Commons and are used under their Creative Commons licences; each caption gives the year, because the facility may have changed since.
