Beach Q 73 commences on the north side of the creek and curves round to the northwest and then back to the north for a total of 24 km, terminating at the mouth of the Kirke River at Cape Keerweer. This is one of the longer beaches on the cape and marks the outer boundary of one of the most extensive beach ridge plains on the Australian coast. The near continuous ridges extend from south of the Holroyd River to the cape region, a distance of 40 km, and up to 70 ridges are spread up to 10 km inland. They have formed from southerly sand transport as a series of both beach ridges and terminal spits to recurved spits. In all the plain totals about 23 000 ha in area. It is undeveloped apart from two abandoned landing grounds, one near the coast, 8 km north of Knox Creek. The beach is exposed to moderate gulf waves and characterised by moderate slopes and a continuous 50-100 m wide low tide bar. The cape is famous as the location where, in 1606, the Dutch yacht Duyfken turned about on its exploratory trip down the cape, hence the name keerweer or ‘turn again’. read more

Beach Length: 0.024km