D’Estrees Bay is a 15 km wide, southeast facing, open bay that has 18 km of sandy shoreline between Cape Reynolds and Point Tinline. Wave energy is high at Point Reynolds, gradually decreasing to near zero along the southern third of the bay, where seagrass meadows grow right to the shore. A gravel road reaches the southern end of the bay, providing public access to the shoreline. Apart from shoreline camping sites, there are no facilities. The first 6 km of the bay is called Flour Cask Bay. This section has continuous, 20 to 30 m high, dune-capped calcarenite-bedrock bluffs fronted by a narrow beach (KI-73), which varies in width depending on the extent of protrusion of the bluffs and is often awash at high tide (Fig.5.15). The beach receives high southwest swell and is fronted by a 300 m wide surf zone dominated by large rips approximately every 400 m, together with a few reefs and a permanent rip against Point Reynolds. There is 4WD access to the top of the bluffs, but otherwise the beach is largely inaccessible. read more

Beach Length: 6.3km