Weather Forecast
16.00°C
Current Temperature
11.00km/h
Wind speed
18.09°C
Water Temperature
0.99m
Swell
0.43m
Tide
6/11
UV
Wineglass Bay (T 160) is one of the more photogenic beaches in Australia, and certainly the most photographed in Tasmania. The view from the saddle track over The Hazards highlights the beautiful curving, brilliant white sand beach, with a foreground of bright blue water, and background of dense green vegetation. It is a good hour’s hike to the bay from the Parsons Cove car park, with the best view from the saddle. The beach itself is 1.7 km long and curves round in a northeast-facing arc (Fig. 4.28). Waves are relatively low averaging 0.5-1 m and decreasing in height into the southern corner. They surge up a steep, white sand usually cusped beach face, with no bar and deep water right off the beach. The beach is backed by a low vegetated dune, which forms the eastern side of the 1.5 km wide isthmus bordered in the west by Hazards Beach (T 170). Indigo Creek occasionally drains across the more protected southern end of the beach, with boats often moored off the corner. To the south of Wineglass Bay are 20 km of exposed steep, rugged granite shoreline bordered by 100m high Cape Forestier in the north and 60 m high Cape Degerando to the south.
Beach Length: 1.7km
General Hazard Rating: 3/10

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SLSA provides this information as a guide only. Surf conditions are variable and therefore this information should not be relied upon as a substitute for observation of local conditions and an understanding of your abilities in the surf. SLSA reminds you to always swim between the red and yellow flags and never swim at unpatrolled beaches. SLSA takes all care and responsibility for any translation but it cannot guarantee that all translations will be accurate.