Mount Cleveland is surrounded by 25 km of predominantly rocky shore, linked to the mainland by extensive tidal flats. On its eastern shore between the cape and Cape Ferguson, 14 km to the south, is a rocky shore containing four beaches, the longest being 2 km in length. Only the southern Turtle Bay is accessible by road and since 1985 has housed the Australian Institute of Marine Science. The first three can only be reached by boat or on foot over the steep backing terrain. Turtle Bay Beach (878) is the longest of the cape's beaches, running for 2 km almost due south from 80 m high Cape Woora to 56 m high Cape Ferguson. The Australian Institute of Marine Science is located on gently sloping ground behind the beach, with the institute's small harbour and boat ramp in lee of the cape. The beach is composed of coarse sand and slopes steeply to a 50 m wide low tide bar. A small creek is usually dammed behind the middle of the beach. Waves average 0.5 m and surge up the steep beach at high tide, while breaking across the bar at low tide. There are large granite boulders at the southern end and scattered rock reefs off the southern end, including prominent Bald Rock. The shoreline and adjacent sea between Paradise Bay and Chunda Bay, west of Cape Ferguson, is part of the Cape Ferguson Marine Park, with the section between Cape Woora and Chunda Bay reserved for scientific research and off limits to the public. read more

Beach Length: 2km