Weather Forecast
24.00°C
Current Temperature
6.00km/h
Wind speed
19.35°C
Water Temperature
1.22m
Swell
0.95m
Tide
10/11
UV
Potato Point is a headland and small community located 7 km east of the highway. The Potato Point road runs out to the point and provides access to five adjoining beaches (NSDW 585-589); the northernmost borders the dynamic mouth of Tuross Lake. The mouth can range from a narrow 50 m wide inlet, to several hundred metres following major floods. When the mouth closes to its maximum it forms a 1.2 km long beach called South Tuross (NSW 585). The beach faces due east and is well exposed to most waves which average about 1.5 m and usually maintain a well develop transverse bar and rip systems, with up to six beach rip crossing the bar, together with the inlet channel and shoals that extends up to 200 m seaward of the inlet. The beach can only be accessed in the south, and is backed by a low foredune and bare sand near the mouth. This is an isolated, exposed, rip- and inlet-dominated beach, unsuitable for swimming.
Beach Length: 1.2km
General Hazard Rating: 7/10

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Formal parking area
Formal parking area

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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.