Starting from the Banksia Campground car park off Fortescue Bay Road, Fortescue, this walk takes you to Canoe Bay. Following the Tasman Coastal Trail, this walk starts by taking you across the white sands of Fortescue Bay Beach. The creek flowing onto the beach from Fortescue Lagoon may need to be waded after heavy rains. At the north end of the beach, the trail climbs gently into the forest and winds along the coast, passing through a penguin rookery and providing spectacular coastal views before descending to Canoe Bay. Towards the middle of the bay, the sunken remains of a steamship called the William Pitt can be seen, which was scuttled in 1955 to act as a breakwater for small boats. If you wish to spend more time exploring the area, you can take advantage of the Banksia or Mill Creek campgrounds, where there are several tent and caravan sites, water tanks, toilets and showers. Let us begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we travel today, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

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