Mount Curlewis
Dominating Abbot Bay's southern shore, the twin peaks of the 220-metre Mount Curlewis lie around half way along twelve kilometres of low-energy beaches between the Elliott River and Splitters Creek, breached by Saltwater Creek. The three stream mouths have extensive tidal shoals with shallow sand waves extending up to several hundred metres off the beaches between them.
A five-kilometre vehicle track from the highway skirts the base of the mount, leading to beachfront shacks built by fishermen to provide holiday and weekend access to the bay, its creeks and beaches.
The area is popularly known as Curlewis and lies around thirty kilometres west-northwest of Bowen and sixty-nine kilometres southeast of Ayr on Yuru country in the locality of Guthalungra within the Whitsunday Regional Council's boundaries.
