Racecourse Bay is a 2 km wide south facing bay bordered by the low Stony and French points. It is fronted by continuous shallow limestone reefs and substrate which both lower waves, and at low tide are exposed as extensive intertidal rock flats, as well as supplying the limestone cobble to build the high tide cobble beach ridges that runs the length of the crenulate bay shoreline. Creek Road parallels the back of the beaches with unsealed access points and informal car parking at each beach, and a larger car park on the western side of French Point. The crenulations divide the bay into three beach systems. Immediately west of Stony Point is a 300 m long southwest facing high tide sand beach (4), fronted by a low sandy bar then rock flats and reefs. Immediately west is the 800 m long central section of Racecourse Bay, which has a high tide cobble beach (5) fronted by a narrow strip of sand and rock flats. The western beach (6) runs in a similar fashion for 1.1 km to the cobble ridges of French Point, with rock flats extending 200 m off the point. A cobble-sand beach (7) continues on the western side of the point for another 700 m. The access road just east of the point is used to launch boat across the beach, which are also moored off the beach in lee of the reefs. read more

Beach Length: 0.3km