Beach WA 1495 commences at the point and curves to the east then north for 6.5 km, terminating at a small sandy foreland 1 km south of the next gap in the reef. The entire beach is paralleled by a continuous barrier reef located 1.5 km offshore, with a wide shallow lagoon between the reef and shore (Fig. 2.21b). The beach is backed by a 200-300 m wide series of foredune ridges, which widen to 400 m at the northern foreland located to the lee of a wider section of reef and has been partly formed by wave refraction through a 1.5 km wide gap in the reef. The wide gap permits refracted waves to reach the shore where they average up to 1 m in height. As a consequence the shoreline has been eroded back to a 1 km long central section of 10 m high calcarenite bluffs. Beach WA 1496 is located between the foreland and the bluffs, while beaches WA 1497 and 1498 occupy two small indentations in the bluffs. read more

Beach Length: 6.5km