Point Sinclair is a 40m high dune and calcarenite capped
granite headland with small beaches on either side. The Point Sinclair area covers 502 ha area of coastline that features dramatic cliffs,
blowholes and huge sand dunes. The gravel road from
Penong ends at the top of the bluffs overlooking
Port Le Hunte. A vehicle track leads down to the
jetty, where there is a small informal
camping area between the bluffs and a seawall.
Port Le Hunte beach is 650m long and faces the southeast in a sheltered bay. The beach has inter-tidal
rock flats fronting the eastern half. There is a
toilet block and fresh water at the
jetty, but no other facilities. The 200m
jetty is no longer used to ship wheat, and a shark net has been strung along the
jetty and back to the beach to provide a shark proof swimming enclosure. This is required as there have been shark attacks at the beach and at adjoining Cactus. During summer fishermen launch their boats from the beach and moor them just off the beach.
Point Sinclair was the first land in South Australia to come under a 1980
Heritage Agreement where, in exchange for not paying rates, a landholder agrees to maintain the native vegetation and allow access to the public. It is under this agreement that camping is permitted just behind the dunes of
Cactus Beach at the
Point Sinclair camp ground.