Boat Harbour is a sleepy little hamlet, one of Port Stephens' hidden jewels. It is surrounded by National Park and bordered on the ocean by a rocky headland which offers superb fishing, great whale watching spots and creates the areas' safest ocean beach. Boat Harbour beach is one of Port Stephens' favourite diving and snorkelling waters, with its many reefs, deep caves and rock platforms and its abundance of fish life.

Anna Bay shops are just 3 kms away and Nelson Bay is only 7 kms away.