Beach Number:

wa1415

Includes Beaches:

Yaringa Point (n)

State/Region:

WA - Carbla

Post Code:

6701

General Beach Hazard Rating:

1/10 ( Least hazardous)

Beach

Yaringa Point marks the southern boundary of a 15 km wide, 6 km deep embayment, and as a result has acted as a sink form sediment moving northward along this section of shore. The sediment has built two beaches (WA 1415 & 1416), as well a substantially filling the embayment (Fig. 4.320). Beach WA 1415 commences at the point and initially trends to the northeast for 2.5 km as a narrow vegetated beach ridge, which the splays into a fan of older vegetated recurved spits, at well as curving to the north as a 1.5 km long active spit. The beach is fronted by 2 km wide tidal flats and backed by supratidal salt flats extending up to 5 km to the east.