Black Head is a 60 m high, black, basaltic headland that forms the only major inflection in the eastern shore of Curtis Island between Cape Capricorn and Southend. There are two beaches in lee of the head and another two smaller beaches immediately to the north. The beaches are undeveloped, with a 4WD access track running up the eastern side of Black Head and reaching the coast at the western end of the western Black Head beach (1424). Black Head (west) beach (1424) is 2.3 km long and curves around from the north-east to face north in lee of the head. It is partially protected by the head and receives waves averaging less than 0.5 m, which break across a 100 m wide low tide bar. The high tide beach is about 20 m wide. A small creek, containing a few mangroves and small backing salt flats, exits at the eastern end of the beach and there is an informal camping area in amongst the trees behind this end of the beach. The 4WD track reaches the western end of this beach. read more

Beach Length: 2.3km