Eco Beach (WA 2047) is the name a sandy ultradissipative beach that sweeps from the lee of the rocks of Cape Villaret to the east, then northeast for 3.7 km to a sandy salient in lee of intertidal rocks. The once remote beach was developed as a wilderness retreat in the 1990’s only to be devastated by Cyclone Rosita in 2000. It was still not reopened in 2005. The low impact beachfront retreat is nestled amongst the red Pleistocene dunes that back the southern corner of the beach, with a nature trail leading out to Cape Villaret and William Dampier Lookout. The beach commences in lee of the rock immediately east of beach WA 2046 and trends east for 1 km before swinging to the northeast. It is backed by a white Holocene foredune then a 1 km wide zone of vegetated red Pleistocene transgressive dunes that extends east from the cape area and the beach. The beach has a moderate gradient high tide beach grading into a lower gradient intertidal zone. There are a few rocks in the intertidal just south of the retreat, with sand all the way to the salient, where rocks begin to dominate the intertidal. read more

Beach Length: 3.7km