Fannys Bay is a curving east-facing 700 m wide embayment containing along its southern shore 300 m long beach T 1208. The beach is a narrow strip of high tide sand fronted by a central low tide terrace with rock reefs to either end and a small creek draining across the centre. Until the 1960s the beach was supplied by sand blowing across the western headland from Tam O’Shanter Bay. These dunes are now vegetated and stable, and as a result the beach is slowly diminishing. Beach T 1209 lies 100 m to the east past a low basalt point. It is a relatively straight, north-facing 200 m long sandy beach with a western low tide terrace grading into rock flats in the east, with the rocky shore continuing on for another 1.2 km. Both beaches are sheltered by the western point with waves averaging about 0.5 m in Fannys Bay and slowing increasing height to the east. They are both backed by a fringe of vegetated slopes, then partly cleared farmland. read more

Beach Length: 0.2km