This remote and beautiful coastal national park features rugged tropical rainforest hinterland and sea-sculpted headlands, fringed with expansive sandy beaches.

Sandy beaches and fringing reefs are backed by dense, tropical rainforest in this remote section of national park. The mountainous, rainforest landscape forms part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Much of this forest has never been logged or disturbed.

Mangkalba (Cedar Bay), Ngalba Bulal National Park is home to a wonderful variety of wildlife including the near threatened Bennett’s tree-kangaroo, the endangered southern cassowary and the vulnerable beach stone-curlew.

Mangkalba (Cedar Bay), Ngalba Bulal National Park is the traditional country of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people, whose country extends along the coast to Mossman. Mangkalba (Cedar Bay), Ngalba Bulal National Park was a major turtle (ngawia) hunting area and contains important cultural sites including the canoe (murabaymba), turtle (ngawaia) and saltwater eel (ngiwa) story sites.