Nudgee Beach is most definitely not a smelly mangrove-choked salt flat just beyond Brisbane Airport's main runway. It's a wide expanse of Moreton Bay where sea meets big sky; you can spy on all sorts of different birds, whose numbers are swelled in the summer when resident shorebirds are joined by migratory species taking a break; and you'll find a million photographic opportunities. So, go visit, and be charmed; as was I on a glorious afternoon on Labour Day Weekend.