I've travelled home to Melbourne from WA through Whyalla 3 times. Have not been lucky with wind and recently tides. I'd like to plan next years trip a little better to increase my chances of kiting the foreshore for a few days in mid December.

Can any Whyalla locals tell me the tide level reading that would have a foot of water over the big sand flats at foreshore beach?

During summer it is almost always low tide in the afternoon, to get a foot of water over the whole area you would normally have to wait until 5 or 6pm, but most people will be out well before that, just have to walk a bit further.
You could always try False Bay, just up the road, always enough water there.

Cheers

AB

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WF said...

During summer it is almost always low tide in the afternoon, to get a foot of water over the whole area you would normally have to wait until 5 or 6pm, but most people will be out well before that, just have to walk a bit further.
You could always try False Bay, just up the road, always enough water there.

Cheers

AB

At first I thought that can't be right. But on checking the tide forecast it does seem that low tide does concentrate around mid / late afternoon. Height was 0.4 when I was there. Some later low tide forecasts show as 1 metre deep. But that's probably not much water over the flats anyway. So, Long walk out to the deep water or False Bay. Thanks for your help