Dudgeon Point is a low bedrock point, the first rock south of Slade Point 20 km to the north. The point and its western extension form part of the southern shore of Sandringham Bay, a 2 to 3 km wide, shallow, sand-filled, low energy bay, with mangrove-covered tidal flats dominating its inner reaches. Three kilometres south-west of Dudgeon Point the mangroves give way sufficiently for a sandy beach to form the shoreline, with three beaches between there and the point. The point and backing land are part of a cattle station and the land has largely been cleared for grazing. Beach 1126 is a 1.3 km long, north-west facing, low energy, sandy beach fronted by 200 m wide sand flats and the deep southern channel of Sandringham Bay. The beach is bordered by a small, mangrove-fringed creek to the west and a smaller tidal creek in the east that exits beside rock flats. A tributary of this creek also runs behind the beach, exiting occasionally across the southern end of the beach. Older recurved beach ridges that have been cleared for grazing back the creek. read more

Beach Length: 1.3km