Agnes Water and neighbouring Seventeen Seventy sit at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, a holiday coast in cyclonic Wind Region C.
Building a shed in Agnes Water
Almost a third of Agnes Water's dwellings (31.8%) were empty on census night in 2021, the pattern of a holiday market. Secure storage for boats, vans and gear is a common brief.
Council describes this as the most northerly east-coast beach to regularly receive Tasman Sea swell. Geoscience Australia's wind data places Agnes Water in Region C, and Council has a Seventeen Seventy Coastal Adaptation and Resilience Plan, so salt, erosion and cyclonic wind all go into the design.
Rain at the Seventeen Seventy station averages 1,126.2 mm a year.