Between Yarrawonga Point and West Hill Island is an unnamed bay, 8 km wide at the entrance between the two points. It extends 5 km inland and contains 20 km of low energy shoreline, dominated by narrow, sandy beaches, extensive intertidal sand flats, and backing tidal creeks and mangrove-covered tidal flats, with the creek channels meandering across the tidal flats at low tide. There are vehicle tracks to the backing five beaches, but apart from some patches of cleared grazing land, there is no development. Four Mile Beach (1190) lies on the southern side of Gillinbin Creek. The meandering, mangrove-fringed creek runs parallel to the 5.3 km long beach for 3 km, with a channel extending over 1 km out across the tidal flats east of the creek mouth. The beach is relatively straight, faces due east and has a 50 m wide, moderate gradient high tide beach fronted by the 1 to 2 km of tidal flats. A small creek forms the southern boundary. The beach is part of the massive sand spit that has been moving sand northward along the beach for the past few thousand years, in the process building out the beach 200 to 300 m and leaving behind a series of recurved spits that today form the eastern shore of the backing creek. The entire spit is densely vegetated, with a straight vehicle track leading from some cleared paddocks to the southern portion of the beach. read more

Beach Length: 5.3km