Bay Watch – Policy

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As a user of this website, I/We accept these T erms & C onditions

The content of this website, and consensual contributors to the website (you), support this project as…

– a collaborative online space: providing a digital medium for coastal visitors and wave riders to document wave riding and the surf waves around Geographe Bay

– an educative online space: detailing referenced factual information on the unique geophysical, environmental, historical, cultural, and contemporary conditions supporting surf-able waves around Geographe Bay

– a catalogue of Geographe Bay surf-waves assets: documenting a community record of recreational surfing (waves, conditions, riders) around Geographe Bay

Until further notice, this website, its content, and its provision is maintained as…

– Free & open-source: other entities can access and share the content

– Public access under consent: utilise the content through the Terms & Conditions Agreement

– Safe-space: supports healthy communication, free of -bullying, -sexualised content, criminal activity

– No liability: accessing, using, sharing anything from this site is the users sole responsibility

The Bay Watch website acts as a record of surfable waves around Geographe Bay. The collection of geo-located images of waves and/or wave riders is in its entirety a formal documentation of Geographe Bay surf-wave assets. This record, and its use, is at the discretion of the website owner, of whom’s intention is the education to the wider community of the unique surf waves in the area and environmental conditions supporting their safe recreation.

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Updated: April 2025