West Tomahawk Beach (T 1254) commences at the sandy foreland and curves to the southeast, then east and finally east-northeast for 4.8 km to a small tombolo that marks the western rocks of Tomahawk Point. The beach receives waves averaging 1 m in the west increasing during strong winds to the east. They maintain a continuous low tide bar, which along the eastern 2 km of beach widens to 100 m and is paralleled by one to two shore-parallel outer bars, which are only active during higher wave conditions and which maintain a rip against the tombolo point. The beach is backed from the west by well vegetated older transgressive dunes, then by a narrow low foredune backed by cleared grazing land, with the foredune increasing in size and instability as the beach turns and faces more into the dominant westerly winds. Older cleared Pleistocene dunes extend up to 6 km south of the beach and are drained by the small creek that crosses the middle of the beach. The entire Holocene dune system is incorporated in the Waterhouse Protected Area in the west and Tomahawk Coastal Reserve in the east. read more

Beach Length: 4.8km