The northern and eastern shore of Cape Upstart consists of 18 km of rugged, rocky coastline, with steep cliffs in places and the land generally rising rapidly to between 200 and 400 m. In amongst the rocks are four small embayments containing six beaches totalling 1.6 km in length. Three of the beaches are composed of boulders, with only three sandy beaches totalling 600 m in length. All six beaches lie in the Cape Upstart National Park, with vehicle access only possible to Coconut Bay, lying just inside the southern park boundary. The bay is linked via a torturous, 7 km long 4WD track to The Cape homestead. The easiest access to all beaches is by boat, with Beach 924 and Kingfisher Bay (south) offering relatively safe anchorage. Coconut Bay (927) is an exposed, headland-bound, 200 m long, south-east facing beach, that is linked by its surf zone to the neighbouring, longer Abbot Bay Beach. A 4WD track reaches the back of the beach, which is also backed by a low spinifex and casuarina-covered foredune, with a small creek draining out along the northern headland. The low gradient beach is over 100 m wide at low tide, with a chance of one or two rips in the low tide surf, particularly against the northern rocks. read more

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