Bales Beach is one of the few accessible surfing beaches along the south coast of the island. It is located just 1 km off the Seal Beach Road and has a small car park providing access to the main beach (KI-95) but no other facilities. Extending east of the main beach are two additional sandy beaches, each bordered by prominent headlands. Bales Beach (1) (KI-93) lies 3 km east of the car park. It is a semi-circular shaped, 850 m long, low energy beach, bordered by prominent headlands protruding 300 m seaward, with reefs occupying much of the semi-enclosed bay, lowering waves at the shore to less than 1 m. These maintain a moderately steep reflective beach, with no bar or surf at the shore. Waves do however break on reefs in the bay and a permanent rip runs out against the western headland. Both active and stable dunes back the beach. read more

Beach Length: 0.85km