Sceale Bay is curving southwest facing bay bordered by Cape Blanche and Speed Point. There is a 7.5 km wide entrance between the point, with 20 km of bay shoreline, including the main 14.7 km long beach (1131) which begins at Sceale Bay settlement and run north then west and finally south at Yanerbie shack settlement. While the southern end of the bay is backed by low stable foredunes, the northern end has the massive white Yanerbie sand dunes which extends up to 4.5 km inland. There is road access in the south to the small Sceale Bay settlement and in the north to the beachfront Yanerbie shacks. The beach at the southern end in protected by Cape Blanche and shore parallel reefs and is usually calm, with the low gradient beach used for launching small boats. A few hundred metres up the beach waves begin to slowly increase averaging 1.5 km 2 km north of the settlement. For the next 10 km high waves, a 200 to 400 m wide low gradient beach and surf zone, and large rips dominate, with dunes also increasing in size and instability. The final 2 km of beach swings round to face south, then west in lee of Speed Point. The waves decrease and calm conditions usually prevail in front of the Yanerbie shacks, with the beach fronted by shallow seagrass beds and also used for launching and mooring small boats. read more

Beach Length: 14.7km