[2] It is the site of a port facility established to handle shipments of limestone for Adelaide Brighton Cement.

The jetty was built in 1920 by the South Australian Harbors Board on a lease back agreement.

The northern beach is 100 m long and hemmed in between the bluffs and the jetty seawall and backed by the mine operations.

Both beaches are unsuitable for recreational activities due to access difficulties and the mining operations.

[6] About two million tonnes (2,000,000 long tons) of limestone are shipped across Gulf St Vincent each year.