Sandy Bight beach (WA 53) is an exposed 14 km long, gently curving, southwest-facing beach backed by sand dunes that have blown 10-15 km behind Cape Pasley to the eastern shoreline. The beach receives waves averaging 2 m, which together with the fine to medium sand maintain a double bar 300 m wide surf zone. The inner bar has rips spaced every 200-300 m, while the outer bar has more widely spaced rips (Fig. 4.18). In addition there are permanent rips against the boundary rocks and the slight foreland in lee of a rocky islet located just off the centre of the beach. The beach is backed by a series of active blowouts-parabolic extending from a few hundred metres to 1 km inland (Fig. 2.8b), and then a far more extensive older, vegetated series of longwalled parabolics which reaches the shoreline at beaches WA 46 and 47, up to 15 km to the east. In the west an isolated rocky point separates it from beach WA 54.
Beach Length: 15km
Patrols
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