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![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

Fern Bay is the southernmost suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.

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## Every way there

- 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)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Fern Bay, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Fern Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fern-bay)

What Fern Bay has

- Y Scheduled flights Williamtown (NTL), 9 km
- F Trains and coaches 34 feeds listed in the Mobility Database, not compiled yet (Translink Magnetic Island, TransLink Maryborough-Hervey Bay, TransLink North Stradbroke Island)
- Y Ferries Muloobinba / Queens Wharf, 5 km, Keolis; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Newcastle, 6 km.

-32.874°, 151.795°

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.

How locals move

## Getting around Fern Bay the local way

- 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_Bay%2C_New_South_Wales), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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