At Cape Elizabeth the coast turns 90o into Tiparra Bay and the shoreline for the first several kilometers faces north. The whole cape area is backed by dunes in the west, beach ridges and spits in the north and then farmland, resulting in restricted public access. The shoreline is a continuous low energy sandy beach fronted by sand flats, with prominent sandy forelands separating the individual beaches. Beach 501 lies on the very northern tip of the cape and is backed by a beachfront farm house at its western end. The 400 m long beach faces north with sand flats widening from 50 m in the west to 200 m in the east. It terminates at a 100 m wide protruding sandy foreland, on the east side of which begins 500 m long beach 502, a similar curving north facing beach. It is located between two low sandy forelands, with remnants of beach ridges and spits backing the beach, while the sand flats widen to 600 m off the beach. read more

Beach Length: 0.4km