Weather Forecast
26.40°C
Current Temperature
6.00km/h
Wind speed
29.56°C
Water Temperature
0.31m
Swell
6.56m
Tide
13/11
UV
Rapid Creek separates the suburb of Rapid Creek from the Dripstone Caves, with a 100 m long footbridge across the creek linking the two. Between the creek and the caves is a 1.2 km long northwest-facing beach (NT 145). The beach has a continuous high tide beach, fronted at the western end by the 1.5 km wide creek tidal shoals, which narrow to 1 km in the east. The beach is backed by a 5-10 m high grassy foredune, then a large gravel car park, and further back the Casuarina campus of the Northern Territory University. The caves are located at the base of 10 m high weathered sandstone bluffs which form the eastern boundary of the beach.
Beach Length: 0.001km
General Hazard Rating: 1/10

Patrolled Beach Flag Patrols

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Information

Formal parking area
Formal parking area

Regulations

Hazards

High Tide Range

Weather

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