False Bay, as the name implies, is an 11 km wide open south facing bay, which however is occupied entirely by very wide, low gradient tidal, sand and salt flats, in places up to 7 km wide. While much of the curving bay shore faces into the south through southeast, the tidal flats afford sufficient protection to maintain five very low energy beach along the shore. Only the two boundary beaches are accessible by vehicles, the central three are surrounded by salt and tidal flats and tidal creeks. Beach 589 is the most substantial beach system in the bay. It is 3.5 km long, faces south and is accessible off the Lowry and Black Point roads. The beach fronts up to 20 earlier beach ridges which widen to 900 m at its western end, and is in turn fronted by 2 km wide ridged sand flats (Fig. 4.108). read more

Beach Length: 3.5km