Sceale Bay

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Sceale Bay
Named by Capt Bloomfield Douglas, (president of marine board), after a comrade In The Admiralty in 1858. Incorrectly spelt as Scales Bay prior to 1921. Named Baie Lemonier by Baudin (Lemon bay); named Baie des Charpentiers by Freycinet (1802). that name honours Marc-Antoine Charpentiers (1634-1704), French composer of oratorios. Studied painting in Italy, then took up composition under Giacomo Carissimi. His work is marked by its lyricism, skilled polyphony and sensitve use of harmonic resources.


Sceale Bay (pronounced Scale) is a small holiday and retirement town 32 kilometres south of Streaky Bay. The permanent population of 38 can double or treble at holiday times.

The town was proclaimed as the township of Yanera in October 1888, but having been earlier named Sceale Bay by Captain Bloomfield Douglas of the Royal Navy, most people continued calling it by that name, and Yanera was offically renamed Sceale Bay in 1940. A jetty was built in 1910, but unfortunately, despite a fierce fight to save it, was demolished in 1972.

Sceale Bay offers the tourist good fishing, beautiful beaches and excellent surf. It is also close to the Point Labatt sea-lion colony and the magnificent granite rock formations known as Murphy's Haystacks.

Limited accommodation is available in holiday houses for rent.

Sceale Bay is along the coast between Venus Bay and Streaky Bay.