Four Mile Bluff is a low 600 m long basalt headland that protrudes up to 50 m seaward of the line of the adjoining beaches. Beach T 1191 extends from the northern end of the bluff for 1.8 km to the basalt rocks and boulders of Five Mile Bluff. This is one of the more exposed and higher energy beaches on this section of coast with the westerly wind waves averaging up to 1.5 m. They maintain a 300 m wide double bar system consisting of an inner transverse bar and rip system, usually cut by six to seven rips, including a permanent rip against Five Mile Bluff, then a rhythmic outer bar (Fig. 4.268). The 150 m wide inner bar grades landwards into a high tide sand and cobble beach. The beach is backed by a semi-stable 10-15 m high foredune and recently vegetated Holocene transgressive dunes, which in the south extend for 3 km across the base of Five Mile Bluff to reach the eastern shoreline and beach T 1194. There is no public access to the beach. read more

Beach Length: 1.8km