 The foreshore is part of the Great Sandy Marine Park.As such, there are limits on some activities off shore.It is part of a turtle monitoring area and spearfishing, bait netting, crabbing, and line fishing are forbidden south of the mouth of Palmer Creek to past Barolin Rocks for 500m east of the low tide line

The Innes Park area was first occupied by European settlers in 1863, as part of the Barolin pastoral station.