Town Beach is located at the base of downtown Geraldton, with the main commercial district along Marine Terrace paralleling the beach 200 m to the south. The beach forms part of the once continuous sandy shoreline of Champion Bay, that extended east from the northern side of Point Moore then curved to the north for 8 km to Chapman River mouth. Today major port development has replaced 3 km of the southern sandy shore with harbour, port and marina facilities and divided the once continuous beach into six remnants, two west of the port, three wedged between the major port and the newer Batavia Coast Marina, and the longer Champion Bay beach left to continue north to the river mouth. Beach WA 2048 continues east of the salient for 3 km where it is backed by the low coastal plain, before turning and trending northeast for 6 km, as a narrow spit grading into a dynamic recurved spit along its distal end. Yardoogarra Outstation is located 1 km inland, at the base of the spit, with a vehicle track out to the shore. Sand moving along the northern tip of the spit varies the beach length over period of years to decades. This section is backed by a tidal creek which has been deflected 3 km to the north and which periodically breaks out south of the tip, thereby shortening the beach. The beach is initially fronted by a mixture of 300 m wide sand and rock flats, that grade into 500 m wide tidal flats towards the creek mouth. The spit area is backed by a floodplain in the south grading into salt flats and then mangroves towards the creek. read more

Beach Length: 9km