Can you get to Wedge Island in a 2WD?

To the edge of it. Indian Ocean Drive and Wedge Road are sealed, and a 2WD can park within about 100m of the beach at North Wedge — from there you walk on with your gear. Driving on the beach itself is 4WD or AWD only, with tyres down; the sand is properly soft in patches and boggings are the local pastime.

Can you camp at Wedge Island or Grey?

No — camping is not permitted unless you're invited by a shack licensee. The roughly 400 shacks are privately owned under DBCA licences and visitors can't stay in the settlements otherwise. DBCA has flagged plans for campgrounds at North Grey Beach in the coming years, but until those exist the nearest legal overnight options are Lancelin or the Nambung National Park area.

What tyre pressure should you run on Wedge beach?

Locals run about 25 PSI on the inland sand track and about 15 PSI on the soft beach, dropping to 10 PSI only to get out of a bogging. Reinflate before hitting firmer ground or bitumen — at 10 PSI a tyre can roll off the rim, which turns a fishing trip into a tyre-changing clinic.

What fish can you catch at Wedge Island?

Tailor are the mainstay, with mulloway the prize target in the gutters at dawn, dusk and after dark. Herring, sand and yellowfin whiting and flathead fill out the bag, Australian salmon pass through in autumn some years, and the occasional pink snapper or samson fish turns up off the beach. Sharks are a regular after-dark hook-up.

When is the salmon run at Wedge Island?

Autumn, when it happens. Wedge sits near the northern end of the salmon migration, so the run is patchier than on the south coast — some autumns the schools push this far up in numbers, others they don't. Plan an autumn trip around tailor in the gutters and treat any salmon school that arrives as the bonus.

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Wedge Island & Grey (4WD Beaches)

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Weather: Sunny Wind: N 11° · 1 km/h Swell: 4.0 m @ 10 s SW Water: 19.7 °C

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Wind S 6 km/h

Moon waxing crescent all day

Water temp 19.7 °C all day

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Activity Forecast

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

4:00 pm → 7:00 pm

Good

7:00 am → 7:30 am

30m

First light

6:47 am

Last light

6:03 pm

Sunrise

7:13 am

Sunset

5:37 pm

Moonrise

10:20 am

Moonset

10:54 pm

High tide

1:30 am

High tide

9:30 am

High tide

11:30 am

Low tide

6:30 pm

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

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Water Temp (°C)

↗ warming — up 0.5° over the last 3 days

Thu

16 Jul

19.2°

Fri

17 Jul

19.6°

Sat

18 Jul

19.7°

Sun

19 Jul

19.7°

Mon

20 Jul

19.7°

Tue

21 Jul

19.6°

Wed

22 Jul

19.5°

Thu

23 Jul

19.4°

Fri

24 Jul

19.4°

Sat

25 Jul

19.5°

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Wind data (text)

Now: 1 km/h N (11°).

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

4:00 pm → 7:00 pm

Good

7:00 am → 7:30 am

30m

First light

6:47 am

Last light

6:03 pm

Sunrise

7:13 am

Sunset

5:37 pm

Moonrise

10:20 am

Moonset

10:54 pm

High tide

1:30 am

High tide

9:30 am

High tide

11:30 am

Low tide

6:30 pm

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