The Kingscote shoreline starts at Beatrice Point 1.5 km north of the town centre. The point area was the site of the first settlement in South Australia, before Adelaide was selected. The beach (KI-6) runs due south for 1 km, first as a sandy spit, then below shaley, 20 m high bluffs. A road runs along the top of the bluffs, providing an excellent view of the beaches and point. The narrow high tide beach is fronted by 150 m wide sand flats. It terminates at a protrusion in the bluffs fronted by a rock groyne, which was the site of a jetty when the basalt bluffs were quarried for road base. On the other side of the groyne, beach KI-7 continues on for 900 m to the Kingscote jetty. This is an irregular, narrow beach, backed by a seawall and also fronted by sand flats. There is a park and picnic area behind the beach, immediately north of the jetty. read more

Beach Length: 1.5km