Slade Bay is an open, east to north-east facing bay lying between the northern Blacks Point and Slade Point, 5 km to the south-east. Blacks beach forms the western shore, with an extensive tidal creek system draining out in the southern corner, and a low energy sandy shore running from the creek in a north-east direction to rocky Slade Point. There is residential and holiday development along the northern half of Blacks beach and continuous foreshore development backing the Slade Bay beach. The main Blacks Beach (1111) begins on the southern side of the rocks and extends for 4.2 km down to the tidal creek mouth. The northern 2 km are exposed to waves averaging 0.5 m and have a 50 m wide high tide beach fronted by a low tide bar, that widens from 100 to 200 m to the south. Halfway down the beach the impact of the creek is felt and intertidal sand flats widen to more than 2 km by the creek mouth. Shoreline oscillations caused by the shifting tidal flats have resulted in a seawall being built in front of the beachfront properties along the central section of the beach. read more

Beach Length: 4.2km