Corvisart Bay is an 18 km long exposed west to southwest facing embayment, bounded by Cape Bauer in the north and The Dreadnoughts in the south. The bay and its shore has been battered by strong westerly waves and winds, leaving generally depleted narrow beaches, interspersed with beach and dune rock. Because of the persistent westerly swell reef controlled rips, and in the north beach rips, abound. The eight beaches are all backed by eroded calcarenite bluffs, partly covered by clifftop dunes extending up to 2 km inland. The only vehicle access to the bay beaches is in the south at the High Cliff car park and in the centre at the Streaky Bay Back Beach (1154), the remainder requiring a 4WD to access along the deflated backing clifftop and dunes. The southernmost bay beach (1146) is a crenulate 2 km long northwest facing beach moderately protected by High Cliff headland. It consists of a narrow high tide beach, fronted by a near continuous calcarenite reef, and backed by low bluffs and a foredune. Waves height increases east along the beach, averaging just over 1 m at the eastern end, where the waves provide left hand surf break over the reef, called Granites. read more

Beach Length: 2km