Catch a Crab

Experience the life of a river crab-trapper, try your luck!
Family fun with Catch a Crab Tweed
Hand-feed friendly wild pelicans and other birds of the estuary
Get up close and personal with a giant crab
Learn about the growing processes behind the famous Sydney Rock Oyster
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About

Catch a Crab Tours offer the chance to experience the nature of the scenic Tweed River and try the succulent taste of fresh mud crab, straight from the river.

For visitors to the Gold Coast and the Tweed, Catch a Crab Tours is a must-do river cruise activity and offers both tour-only and meal packages.

On each Catch a Crab Tour, you'll get the chance to haul in live crabs, which are cooked fresh on board the boat. You can also hand feed friendly wild pelicans, pump for yabbies, and try your hand at fishing.

Visit Birds Bay Oyster Farm on the Terranora Lakes, where the Sydney Rock oysters are grown and shucked fresh daily. Learn how an oyster grows and travels from the farm to your plate!

Onshore at the Oyster Shed, the chef prepares freshly shucked oysters and seafood dishes to order using only the best ingredients and the freshest, tastiest seafood.

For a tasty tour on the river, full of great experiences, adventures, and flavours ensure that you include a Catch a Crab Tour in your holiday plans!

What's Available

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Catch a Crab

Catch a Crab

Catch a Crab highlights include: fun activities and fresh seafood, feed the pelicans, trapping for crabs, catch your own bait (yabbie pumping) and fishing. Tour includes equipment for all activities, fishing rods and bait supplied. Lunch package options include tour and Birds Bay Seafood Basket, tour and Birds Bay Seafood Platter, or tour and Premium Crab Oyster Platter. The Oyster Shed restuarant is the only crab-specialist eatery on the Southern Gold Coast. Enjoy some of the freshest, tastiest Queensland mud crab, or treat yourself to a platter of Sydney Rock oysters - straight from the farm! For all bookings enquiries please go to the website.

From $95 to $180 per person

Reviews & Ratings

Karina M

Karina M

Google review

The weather was exceptional. We all enjoyed the informative and fun tour from catching crabs, feeding pelicans and fishing, to learning about how oysters harvest. We chose a weekend, at the end of the school holidays so it wasn’t overly busy. My 85 year old father to my 6 year old grand daughter all had a great time. Not too long. A great way to spend the morning and a delicious lunch afterwards. Only negative was that we weren’t informed by our booking provider, not Catch a Crab, that even though they are situated in NSW, they run on the QLD time zone. We are local people who would highly recommended this tour.

Where you'll be

11-17 Birds Bay Drive

Tweed Heads West NSW 2485