Weather Forecast
14.30°C
Current Temperature
30.00km/h
Wind speed
17.50°C
Water Temperature
2.10m
Swell
1.39m
Tide
3/11
UV
Picnic Beach (984) is a 7 km long beach that begins of the south side of Point Drummond as a south facing partially protected white sand beach, then curves round to faces southwest and finally west and it runs down to link with the northern most Convention beach. There is vehicle access via Point Drummond to a car park in lee on the northern end of the beach, where waves are generally less than1m in height. However south of the car park wave height rapidly increases and a 300 m wide rip dominated surf zone, can contain up to 20 rip in the inner surf zone, with larger rips in the outer surf zone. Generally active sand dunes up to 2 km wide back the entire beach, with farmland further inland, and 160 m high Mount Drummond in the south.
Beach Length: 7km
General Hazard Rating: 7/10

Patrolled Beach Flag Patrols

There are currently no services provided by Surf Life Saving Australia for this beach. Please take the time to browse the Surf Safety section of this website to learn more about staying safe when swimming at Australian beaches. Click here to visit general surf education information.

Information

Formal parking area
Formal parking area

Regulations

Hazards

Weather

SLSA provides this information as a guide only. Surf conditions are variable and therefore this information should not be relied upon as a substitute for observation of local conditions and an understanding of your abilities in the surf. SLSA reminds you to always swim between the red and yellow flags and never swim at unpatrolled beaches. SLSA takes all care and responsibility for any translation but it cannot guarantee that all translations will be accurate.