Sherlock Bay (2)

WA Roebourne Cossack Directions

Weather Forecast

26.80°C

Current Temperature

2.00km/h

Wind speed

29.27°C

Water Temperature

0.45m

Swell

4.55m

Tide

13/11

Beach WA 1846 is a westward migrating barrier island that has extended as a series of partly active recurved spits for 1.5 km across beach WA 1845 (Fig. 4.396). The beach extends east for 3.5 km to a 50 m wide creek mouth. The island is up to 400 m wide and backed by a 200 ha, 48 m bedrock high, then several kilometres of salt flats. Beach WA 1847 continues east of the tidal creek for 4.5 km as a 300-400 m wide crenulate barrier island, to terminate at the next 100 m wide creek mouth. The island is backed by inner beach ridges and 3 km wide salt flats then the eastern distributary of the Harding River.

Beach Length: 3.5km

General Hazard Rating: 1/10

Patrols

There are currently no services provided by Surf Life Saving Australia for this beach. Please take the time to browse the Surf Safety section of this website to learn more about staying safe when swimming at Australian beaches. Click here to visit general surf education information.

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Weather

SLSA provides this information as a guide only. Surf conditions are variable and therefore this information should not be relied upon as a substitute for observation of local conditions and an understanding of your abilities in the surf. SLSA reminds you to always swim between the red and yellow flags and never swim at unpatrolled beaches. SLSA takes all care and responsibility for any translation but it cannot guarantee that all translations will be accurate.