Beach conditions Lancelin/ Wedge, WA??

That particular beach - like many - is a steep eroding beach in winter and a shallow compacting beach in summer.

Winters over, along with the beach eroding winter cold front storms - its the first week of summer.

The beach is stable and compacting at the moment and for the foreseeable next few months, unless we were to get something like a tropical cyclone come way south of the sub tropic zone ending roughly at the 26th paralell round shark bay - and cause the beach to again erode during the normal summer compacting period.

That's unlikely, but has occurred in the past - Cyclone Alby that hit Busselton for example round the late eightys or early nineties.

Barring any such cylcone comming this far south - you should be good till probably March April or whenever the first winter cold fronts again start pumelling us and eroding the beaches again.

Given how soft that eroding beach north of Lancelin can be in winter - you did well to ask - but really speaking the answer, given the above explanation, should be self evident.

Cheers!

That particular beach - like many - is a steep eroding beach in winter and a shallow compacting beach in summer.

Winters over, along with the beach eroding winter cold front storms - its the first week of summer.

The beach is stable and compacting at the moment and for the foreseeable next few months, unless we were to get something like a tropical cyclone come way south of the sub tropic zone ending roughly at the 26th paralell round shark bay - and cause the beach to again erode during the normal summer compacting period.

That's unlikely, but has occurred in the past - Cyclone Alby that hit Busselton for example round the late eightys or early nineties.

Barring any such cylcone comming this far south - you should be good till probably March April or whenever the first winter cold fronts again start pumelling us and eroding the beaches again.

Given how soft that eroding beach north of Lancelin can be in winter - you did well to ask - but really speaking the answer, given the above explanation, should be self evident.

Cheers!

Cheers mate, yeah I had the dirt bike along that beach in winter and just about every 4WD we came across was bogged.

One of my young ladies friends who is coming along has to be back in Perth for a function early that night, so I figure the last thing I need was to get bogged on a clapped out beach and have to deal with a bleep off- female wile trying to recover a 4BY, A man can only deal with so much LOL

I went through there a couple of weeks ago.
If you're coming onto the beach at Dide or Narrow Neck I reckon you'll be right. The really boggy bit was I'd guess under a click from the main entrance onto the beach from Lano.

We got through going towards Lano, stopped to help a mate launch their inflatable, and watched the next 4 vehicles going north hit the boggy patch and stay there.

Do you know if the ranger is picking on bikes and quads up there?
We were thinking of spending a couple of days up there over xmas but we've been told they're not happy with quads unless you've got a shack.

I came back along the beach about three weeks ago (at low tide), it was a very comfortable 70kph trip down to Narrowneck and then the beach got progressively softer so I left the beach half way around magic. Providing there hasn't been any big swells since then I would imagine the beach would still be a good run at low tide. Regards Alanc

Hi,
Just for history and accuracy Cyclone Alby hit in April 1978.
Regards Alan.