--- title: "Fern Bay – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Fern Bay, Australia: Fern Bay is the southernmost suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fern-bay" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fern-bay.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/New_subdivision_works_at_Fern_Bay_01.jpg/3840px-New_subdivision_works_at_Fern_Bay_01.jpg" --- Suburb of Port Stephens Council, New South Wales, Australia # Fern Bay Fern Bay is the southernmost suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. ![Fern Bay](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/New_subdivision_works_at_Fern_Bay_01.jpg/3840px-New_subdivision_works_at_Fern_Bay_01.jpg) Fern Bay · Wikimedia Commons The place Fern Bay is the southernmost suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located just north of Stockton, which is the only suburb of Newcastle that lies north of the Hunter River and to the east of the north arm of the Hunter River at the entrance to Fullerton Cove, a large body of water. To the east is the Tasman Sea. Despite the suburb only being 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) in a direct line from Newcastle, the need to cross the Hunter River results in Fern Bay being 16 km (9.9 mi) by road from the centre of the city. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_Bay%2C_New_South_Wales), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Fern Bay One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Stockton Bridge The Stockton Bridge is a road bridge that carries Nelson Bay Road across the Hunter River, between Kooragang and Stockton in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. The bridge and Nelson Bay Road serve as the main transport route between Newcastle and the Tilligerry and Tomaree peninsulas in Port Stephens. 1.4 km · bridge in Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_Bridge) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Fern Bay **Airports:** Newcastle (NTL), 9 km · Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 132 km\ - Sydney (Mascot) → Fern Bay 132 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · A$21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sydney-mascot-to-fern-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sydney+%28Mascot%29&to=Fern+Bay) - Gold Coast → Fern Bay 563 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · A$210–310 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gold-coast-to-fern-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gold+Coast&to=Fern+Bay) - Toowoomba → Fern Bay 590 km · quickest by air, 5h 53m · A$240–600 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/toowoomba-to-fern-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Toowoomba&to=Fern+Bay) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Fern%20Bay) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Fern Bay Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Fern Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around There is a single ferry service between and , costing $2.40 each way, also using Opal cards. From [Wikivoyage: Newcastle (New South Wales)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Newcastle_(New_South_Wales%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kgari) AU 8 ways of moving, 31 sources 862 km 2. [Bruny Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bruny-island) AU 11 ways of moving, 24 sources 1,224 km 3. [Kangaroo Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kangaroo-island) AU 9 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,372 km 4. [Milford Sound / Piopiotahi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milford-sound) NZ 8 ways of moving, 32 sources 1,911 km 5. [Wakatobi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wakatobi) ID 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 4,234 km If you know how people move in Fern Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cfern-bay&title=Fern+Bay&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ffern-bay), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Fern Bay Fern Bay is 6 km from [Newcastle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/newcastle), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. 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