| Sawmill Beach Whitsundays is found in Cid Harbour. The beach is a beautifull swimming beach and a great camp site. Located on Whitsunday Island, Queensland, on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, it also boasts a short bush walk and a simple camp site. Permits for camping are available from the National Parks office in Airlie Beach. |
| Sawmill Beach acquired its name because from 1888 to 1904 the Withnall family operated a sawmill there and in the 1990s remnants of that occupation still could be found, though fast disappearing. (see Timber industry)
During the Depression of the 1930s under a scheme to place certain unemployed persons in an area where they could fend for themselves the Department of Labour and Industry, Brisbane in November 1931 approved an informal tenure (IL 1312) over an area of 200 acres in the Sawmill Beach area of Cid Harbour, and Alexander Burnett, William Charles Fisher, Harold Robertson and George Henry Gray were permitted to occupy the area free of rent. They had the right to cultivate ten acres of the leased land but whether this occupation took place is not known. |
