Marshall Beach extends most of the way along the eastern shore of the bay and is divided in two by the small central Marshall Rock outcrop and associated sand foreland. The southern half of the beach (FI 82) commences at the base of the Castle Rock Point and trends to the north for 3.9 km to the Marshall Rock. It is the highest energy of the bay beaches with the westerly wind waves averaging over 1 m where they maintain a low gradient 100 m wide bar, often cut by rips spaced every 200-300 m, with up to 10 rips along the beach. It is backed by a grassy foredune, some largely vegetated blowouts and older longwalled parabolic dunes extending 1-2 km inland as far as the Palana Road (Fig. 4.305). The deflation hollows and associated wetland are called the Lughrata Holes. read more

Beach Length: 3.9km