The Bay Islands always surprise new visitors with their large range of facilities and their beauty.

Make sure that you do not miss out on an opportunity to invest in this excellent area with viewing it for yourself.

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MACLEAY ISLAND

Macleay Island is the most heavily populated of the four Bay Islands and has a thriving business and social community with around 4000 people.

Macleay Island has a second smaller island - Perulpa Island attached to it by a causeway..

There is a beautiful white sandy beach at the northern end of the Island where you can relax and have a barbecue at the provided facilities and enjoy the beautiful Island weather.

There is a Golf Club and the well known Macleay Island Bowls Club has the most beautiful water views of any

Bowls Club anywhere!

The Blue Parrot Restaurant provides wonderful breakfast lunch and dinners.

Macleay Island has very good infrastructure.

The Island has a Doctors Surgery, Ambulance Service, Fire Service, Police Station, First Responders.

There are two Supermarkets, Fuel, a Pharmacy, Post office, Vets surgery, Boat shop, Spare parts store, Restaurant, Pizza shop, Fish and Chip shop, Bakery, two Hairdressers, a second hand shop, Video store, Pet store, Computer store, Bendigo Bank, Car yard, Hardware store, Solicitors office, Butchers, Deli and Homewares shop.

There is a Golf club, Bowls club, Boat club and Arts group.

There are weekly pottery, art, tai chi, yoga and dance classes among others.

There are builders, maintenance groups, tree lopers, lawn mowers, boat brokers, building and pest inspectors and other tradespeople on the Island.

We are on town water but the Islands are not on sewerage yet - it is all septic.

We have mains power, weekly rubbish pick up, daily mail delivery, adsl Internet connection and satellite TV.

Our rates average around $2000 per annum.

Karragarra Island

Breathtaking Karragarra Island is only about 0.5 km wide and 2.5km long with a population of around 124.

Karragarra island is the closest port to Redland Bay, taking approximately 12 minutes by water taxi.

The best white sandy beaches on any of the four bay islands are on Karragarra Island and a protected swimming pool near the jetty make the island popular for day-trippers both from the mainland and other islands.

There are free bbqs on the beach, picnic tables, fresh water showers and shady trees.

There are no shops - all food and other provisions must be brought from the mainland or the larger islands.

Every thing is in easy reach from the jetty.

Karragarra Island is the perfect place for people who want to get away from it all and relax in a pristine environment.
Karragarra Island will not suit everyone, but is perfect if you are looking for a peaceful quiet and beautiful getaway.

The Island is extremely quiet and peaceful with few cars and most of the noise coming from the local wildlife.

However, it takes one minute by water taxi to get to Macleay Island if you need shops or clubs and 12 minutes to get to Redland Bay where a bus will meet the water taxis and take to you Koala Park, Cleveland or to the train station where you can jump on to go to the city.

Lamb Island

Magical Lamb Island does have a shop.

The jetty store not only provides all of your grocery needs and fuel, but also serves great takeaway or sit in meals.

Some of the most breathtaking views that you will see are to be had from Lamb Island.

The population is approximately 360 people, so it is again, a lovely, quiet Island but with the advantage of a local store.

Lamb also boasts a bowls club, tennis courts, and library.

There are many spots to put your boat in the water on this lovely island.
Boating is a full time recreation for many of the Island residents

Karragarra, Lamb, Russell & Macleay Islands are well serviced by high-speed catamarans and vehicular barges.
The 120 passenger ferries take 12 minutes from Redland bay to Karragarra from Wynnum Creek Marina at Banana Street Redland Bay.

The Beautiful Bay Islands

Living on the Bay Islands is like stepping back in time.

Children ride their bikes up and down the Street, Mothers come out at dinner time and try to round up their children from among all the neighbors' kids and get them cleaned up from their adventures before tea.
Cubby houses are built on spare blocks of land or on the water front.

Kids play cricket in the Street. Locals know to drive slow and look out for children's toys, bikes and skateboards.
Neighbors send their children or husbands to the neighbors for that one missing item for dinner.

People lean over the fence and have a chat. A neighbor goes to borrow a cup of milk to make a cup of tea and comes home an hour later after having tea and biccies next door as well.

Cars pull over when they see someone walking with parcels and offer a lift. You never have to walk anywhere in the rain, some one will come along and pick you up.
People greet each other by name, help each other up the jetty with heavy parcels and yell out 'to come over for a cuppa when you come back from the mainland'.

When you walk into the shops and clubs you know the staff by name and they know you. If someone new is seen near your home, you get a phone call to make sure everything is alright.

If worst happens and you have to be taken off the islands somewhere in a hurry you will come home to your washing brought in and the lawns mowed.

You can always ring someone to: move the car, turn off the iron, feed the cat/dog/budgie/guinea pig, check the house.
You leave the keys to your car/house somewhere where your friends can find them if they need to borrow something.

There are always invitations to bbqs, parties, dinners.

If some one in the community needs help, the locals get together and sort it out.

Peoples pastimes are fishing, boating, gardening, walking, canoeing, kayaking, surf skiing and out door activities.
The demand for the 'right brand name' clothing doesn't seem to matter so much here.
Nor does television or computer games - there is too much more to do.
We see dolphins, dugongs, eagles, galahs, kookaburras, curlew's, fish and assorted birdlife galore. We are surrounded by natural beauty - trees and wildlife not concrete.

Living on the Bay Islands is like living a million miles from civilization in a small country town, but with all of the bonuses of being under an hour from a major city! Where else in Australia could we find such an amazing place?

From the Courier Mail Saturday December 6th

"What your house is worth"

Only four areas in Redland City had Median price growth.

They were:

Victoria Point at 1.7% growth

Wellington Point with 0.7% growth

Macleay Island with 25.5% growth

Russell Island with 46.7% growth!

With most figures across the state showing negative growth and nothing as high as 46.7%,

these figures show what excellent investment the Islands continue to be.

Island Growth Figures

Karragarra Island:

*RP data figures show that Karragarra Island houses have increased by 155% since 2004 which is 38.75% per annum.

*RP data figures show that Karragarra Island land has increased by 104.6% since 2004 which is 26.15% per annum.

Lamb Island Growth Figures

*RP figures show that Lamb Island houses have increased by 77.3% since 2004 which is 19.32% per annum.

*Rp figures show that Lamb Island land has increased by 192.6% since 2004 which is 48.15% per annum.

Macleay Island Growth Figures

*Rp figures show that Macleay Island house have increased by 55.7% since 2004 which is 13.92% per annum.

*Rp figures show that Macleay Island land has increased by 100.8% since 2004 which is 25.2% per annum.

*RP Data gets their figures from sales from the titles office.

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