Between Yarrawonga Point and West Hill Island is an unnamed bay, 8 km wide at the entrance between the two points. It extends 5 km inland and contains 20 km of low energy shoreline, dominated by narrow, sandy beaches, extensive intertidal sand flats, and backing tidal creeks and mangrove-covered tidal flats, with the creek channels meandering across the tidal flats at low tide. There are vehicle tracks to the backing five beaches, but apart from some patches of cleared grazing land, there is no development. Marion Creek beach (1189) is a 2.8 km long, straight, south-east facing beach bordered by 100 m wide Marion Creek to the north and 300 m wide Gillinbin Creek to the south. Both creeks drain the coastal range as well as having extensive mangrove-covered tidal systems. The high tide beach is relatively narrow and steep and fronted by 1 to 2 km of intertidal sand flats. It is backed by 200 to 300 m of densely vegetated beach ridges and recurved spits that have built northward along the beach over the past few thousand years. These in turn are backed by extensive mangrove-covered tidal flats in the north, with slightly higher, partially cleared land in the south, on which there is a vehicle track out to the beach. read more

Beach Length: 2.8km