Ketchem Bay is a small 500 m wide rocky bay located 1 km west of Middle Bluff. The bay is located in amongst a series of north-south-trending rocky ridges, which continue off the eastern side of the bay as Ketchem Island. Set in the rear of the bay are three rock-divided small beaches (T 607-609), the easternmost at the mouth of Ketchem Creek. Southerly waves travel into the small bay averaging over 1.5 m and break across a continuous 100 m wide surf zone, with the three beaches behind. Beach T 607 occupies the creek mouth and is a 150 m long area of bare sand, destabilised by the creek flow. It is backed by a 14 m high foredune, then a 350 m wide wetland, with the creek flowing through the centre. Waves break across the bar and flow west along the beach existing via a rip it shares with the neighbouring beach which flows out against a series of linear rocks and reefs that separates the two beaches. Beach T 608 is a 60 m long pocket of sand backed by a densely vegetated 15 m high bluff, tied to rocky points at either end, that protrudes slightly to define the beach and extends into the surf as rock reefs. read more

Beach Length: 0.15km