Location and conditions

Our club is situated at Ocean Beach, just ten kilometres from the town of Denmark, off Ocean Beach Road on an “A” Class Reserve in the Shire of Denmark.

The mouth of Wilson Inlet broaches a sand bar into the Southern Ocean just north of the club’s patrol area and club house. For much of the year, the bar is closed, enabling easy access to the northern shores of the bay. During the summer patrol period the club carries out roving patrols into this area as it is used by many people for fishing , surfing and swimming.

Denmark is a popular tourist town, with a population of about 4,500 that swells over summer. The region boasts spectacular, yet treacherous coastline—sadly, the cause of many tragedies over the years. The club has been involved with the police and other search and rescue organisations many times encompassing an area from Ocean Beach to west of Walpole in the search and recovery of bodies and others swept from fishing rocks and from boating accidents.

The skills of our club members—who bring local knowledge, boat driving and crewing skills, navigation and radio skills—are highly regarded and often called upon.