Valley Bay is a 1.2 km wide west-facing bedrock bay surrounded by slopes rising to 80 m with Cape Grim forming the northern headland. Beach T 954 is a narrow beach that curves around the north-central section of the bay for 800 m (Fig. 4.190). The beach faces due west and receives waves lowered by deeper reefs in the bay to about 1.5 m. They maintain a 50-80 m wide bar usually cut by three rips and backed by a narrow sandy beach, which is at times removed to expose a backing storm boulder beach. Moderate to steep vegetated dune-draped slopes back the beach with the climbing dunes reaching the 50 m high crest and extending up to 1.2 km inland. The dune area is surrounded by farmland, part of the historic Woolnorth station, which is located 2 km east of the beach. The northern Cape Grim is the site of a climate monitoring station and is located on a 50 ha area of Commonwealth land. read more

Beach Length: 0.8km