Rocky Point and Point Bell are two protruding metasedimentary headlands, both capped by calcarenite. Between the two is a 12 km long beach (1320) backed by active dunes extending from 500 m to 1.5 km inland. The beach faces south-southwest for most of its length swinging round in lees of Point Bell to faces east. There is vehicle access to Rocky Point and the rear of Point Bell, with 4WD access along the low gradient, white sand beach and out onto the point. While the beach faces into the dominate swell it is protected in the east by shore parallel beachrock reefs and by Finders Rocks. The rocks lie 3 km offshore, with a slight cuspate foreland in their lee. Finally in the west the 5 km long southern protrusion of Point Bell, together with reefs extending another 3.5 km off the point all lower waves at the shore. As a result waves peak in the centre at about 1.5 m where they maintain a low gradient transverse bar and rip system ,with widely spaced rips, decreasing in energy to the east in lee of the beachrock reefs, and to the west in lee of Point Bell. The sand on the eastern side of Point Bell is very fine and white, in contrast to the coarser brown sand on the western side of the point. Where the two sand merge on the beach and in the dunes they produce some distinctive size and colour-sorted dune features. read more

Beach Length: 12km