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Michaelmas Cay fishing forecast & tide times
Michaelmas Cay is a reef on the Queensland reef coast at 16.603° S, 145.976° 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 Michaelmas Cay
Official high and low tide predictions for Michaelmas Cay for the next seven days, taken from the Bureau of Meteorology gauge 16 nm away at Cairns - Beacon C1, 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
- Oyster Reef2 nm
- Vlasoff Cay3 nm
- Upolu Cay5 nm
- Hastings Reef6 nm
- Arlington Reef7 nm
- Saxon Reef9 nm
Nearby forecasts
Marine Park zoning at Michaelmas Cay
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.