Reduce your salt footprint: eight things you can do at Kings Beach
The proposed structure is some years away. In the meantime, foot traffic is one of the three main pathways for salt leaving Kings Beach. This sheet is for visitors.
- Stay on the track and off the dunes.
- Walk on dry sand where you can. Wet sand releases more salt underfoot.
- Enter and leave the water at one point to limit the area disturbed.
- Shake your towel before you reach the water, or at the car.
- Wring out your swimmers at home. Water wrung out at the water's edge goes straight back in.
- Rinse off at home rather than in the sea. Salt carried off the beach on your body has not entered the ocean.
- Avoid peak times where possible. Fewer people means less disturbance.
- Talk to children about where salt goes. Our community voices page has some ideas.
Please do not take sand or rocks home, as this is not allowed in a nature reserve. Kings Beach is not patrolled and can have strong rip currents. See our visitor information before you go.
The Kings Beach Salt Runoff Containment Proposal is a proposal to build a 6 metre concrete wall between the sand and the sea at Kings Beach, Broken Head, NSW, to stop salt reaching the ocean. It has not been approved and no works are scheduled.