Activities include four wheel driving, sand boarding, surfing and kitesurfing, fishing, swimming and snorkeling.

Motorbike riding has been banned in the area surrounding Wedge Island after many accidents resulted in people needing to be air lifted to receive medical attention.

A man was fatally stabbed during a beach party on the northern side of Wedge in December 2013, after a brawl broke out.

In March 2010, the Minister for the Environment Donna Faragher announced that she would not be seeking an end to the leases at Wedge and Grey until compromise options were considered by government.

In April 2011, a WA Legislative Council Standing Committee found that coastal shacks "should" be removed to protect the environment from "unplanned growth".

The shack leases were due to expire on 30 June 2011, but the Wedge community won a one-year renewal for all occupied facilities.

Following amendments to the Conservation and Land Management Act in 2012, the Department of Parks and Wildlife said it no longer had the power to provide leases there.

Wedge and Grey are in an area subject to summer bushfires and visitors in beach shacks are sometimes asked to relocate.

During November 2024, an emergency alert was raised for parts of Wedge Island[6] and Grey after a car crash started a bushfire.