Windmill Beach (620) is the first higher energy beach, not fronted by sand flats, encountered on the western gulf shore. It faces southeast into the winder gulf and receives higher wind waves during onshore and westerly conditions. These maintain a relatively straight 13 km long beach, usually reflective, with deeper water off the beach then the seagrass meadows, usually within 100 m of the shore. The beach is part of a Holocene barrier that built northward as a series of 15 recurved spits, that narrowed the entrance of Franklin Harbour from 7 to 2 km, then built seaward as a series of 10 beach-foredune ridges, a few hundred meters in width. A vehicle track extends for 9 km along the back of the beach. read more

Beach Length: 12.8km