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Bowen beaches and parklands will close to the public this winter to make way for amphibious and land-based military training operations.
Kings Beach, from the mouth of Sandhill Creek, will be closed from 5am Sunday, July 18 to 5am Saturday, July 31, to allow the Department of Defence to conduct activities including landing of military boats, landing craft, and hover craft, plus the driving along the beach by military
vehicles. Council-managed sites in Bowen will be temporarily closed to the public at the request of Australian, American, New Zealand, Japanese, British, Canadian and the Republic of Korea Defence Forces. Picture: Supplied.