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The Regions

Bynoe Harbour

Bynoe Harbour is a great wilderness escape, home to a diverse range of marine and  coastal habitats and contains some of the Northern Territory's best quality reefs. Bynoe contains a rich mixture of plants and animals and provides internationally significant habitats.

Cruise past many unspoiled beaches, low wooded islands surrounded by clear water, rocky headlands and sandy tidal flats that can turn on some wonderful fishing for the enthusiast.

Bynoe hosts the only known large Northern Territory seagrass bed found west of Darwin, with further patches of seagrass scattered throughout the region. Dugongs are often seen feeding on these seagrass beds. The area also contains valuable wader bird habitat, feeding grounds for juvenile hawksbill and green turtles, sandy beach nesting sites for flatback turtles and over 250 species of fish.

Gove/Nhulunbuy

The Gove Peninsula is situated on the very north-east tip of the Northern Territory, Australia. Nhulunbuy is the town which services the bauxite mining community and is serviced daily by commercial jets from both Darwin and Cairns.

The region remains remote because the land on which the town and mine are situated is leased from the traditional owners and special permits are required for visitors to stay in the region. Road access is extremely poor and limited, keeping regular road tourists to a minimum.

The islands surrounding the peninsula are hardly touched by the locals due to the abundant fish stocks close to the town, which remain sustainable because of the small permanent population.

Nhulunbuy experiences a typical tropical climate with four seasons, the build-up, the wet, the run-off and the dry. Temperatures remain fairly constant with a range between 18șC - 30șC during the dry season and 24șC - 33șC at other times of the year. Water temperatures vary between 26șC and 30șC.

A wide diversity of fish species is abundant in the warm waters and will cater for all types of fishing including bottom fishing for Red Emperor and Coral Trout, trolling for Mackerel, Tuna, Barracuda and Marlin, fly fishing for Sailfish, Milkfish, Bonefish and Queenfish, popper casting for Giant Trevally and Queenfish and baitcasting/lurecasting for Barramundi and Mangrove Jack.

The Gove region includes so many different areas it is impossible to visit them all in a week. Once you have tasted the experience you will want to return as many times as possible. The Top End Crew will help you explore as much of this remote country as you want.