Mount Curlewis is a twin-peaked, 220 m high hill that dominates the southern shore of the bay. Along its base and to either side are 12 km of low energy beaches, bounded by the Elliott River and Splitters Creek and breached by Saltwater Creek. In addition to the extensive tidal shoals at the stream mouths, there are extensive shallow sand waves extending up to several hundred metres off the beaches. Mount Curlewis (east) Beach (934) extends in an easterly direction from the base of the mount for 4 km to the broad mouth of Splitters Creek. The beach is attached to the base of the mount for the first 700 m, where there are several beachfront shacks. It then continues as a low, sandy beach, backed by a 1 to 1.5 km wide series of 12 low, vegetated beach ridges and spits, that represent a 6 000 year build out of the shoreline. A 4WD track also reaches a few shacks on the inner spits on the western side of Splitters Creek mouth. The beach is moderately steep and narrow at high tide, with extensive sandy shoals exposed at low tide; these widen and shoal toward the eastern creek mouth. read more

Beach Length: 4km