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Cardwell fishing forecast & tide times
Cardwell is a harbour on the Queensland reef coast at 18.268° S, 146.027° E. Wind, sea and tide times below, and the live map one tap away.
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Wind is BLEND‑NQ, ReefNav’s own blend of six global models — ECMWF, ECMWF AIFS, GFS, ICON, GEM and UKMO — bias‑corrected against the nearest weather station’s own last 40 days.
Tide times near Cardwell
Official high and low tide predictions for Cardwell for the next seven days, taken from the Bureau of Meteorology gauge at Cardwell, the nearest to this spot. Heights are metres above LOWEST ASTRONOMICAL TIDE.
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Tide predictions © Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology; published by The State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads).
Reefs and cays within reach
- Kelso Reef55 nm
- Howie Reef56 nm
- John Brewer Reef62 nm
- Maori Reef72 nm
- Sudbury Reef76 nm
- Hervey Shoals78 nm
Nearby forecasts
Marine Park zoning at Cardwell
Most of this coast sits inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, and the zone you are in decides whether you can fish, and how. Green (Marine National Park) zones are no‑take. Yellow (Conservation Park) zones allow limited line fishing. Dark blue (Habitat Protection) zones allow fishing but no trawling or netting. Light blue is General Use.
ReefNav draws all of it on a nautical chart we built ourselves from open GBRMPA and Maritime Safety Queensland data — zoning, depth contours, spot soundings, navigation marks and boat ramps on one chart, rather than cross‑referencing a zoning PDF against a paper chart.