Beaches in Port Phillip facts for kids

Port Phillip is a bay in Victoria, Australia. It has many beaches, most of which are flat, shallow and long, with very small breaks making swimming quite safe. This attracts many tourists, mostly families, to the beaches of Port Phillip during the summer months and school holidays. Water sports such as body boarding and surfing are easy or simple, except in extreme weather conditions.

Most sandy beaches are located on the bay's northern, eastern and southern shorelines, while the western shorelines host a few sandy beaches, there mostly exists a greater variety of beaches, swampy wetlands and mangroves. The occasional pebble beach and easy sand dunes can also be found, mostly in the southern reaches.

Beaches

View of St Kilda Beach and pier

Hobsons Bay

• Yarra River
• Sandridge Beach - Port Melbourne
• Port Melbourne Beach - Port Melbourne
• South Melbourne Beach - Albert Park

West Beach - St Kilda West

• St Kilda Beach - St Kilda

Between Hobsons and Beaumaris Bays

Elwood Beach and Port Philip

Point Ormond near Elwood, Victoria (2009)

• Elwood Beach - Elwood
• Seacombe Grove Beach - Brighton
• Middle Brighton Beach - Brighton
• Dendy Street Beach - Brighton
• Brighton Beach - Brighton
• Hampton Beach - Hampton
• Sandringham Beach - Sandringham
• Half Moon Bay Beach - Black Rock
• Black Rock Beach - Black Rock
• Ricketts Point Beach - Beaumaris

Watkins Bay Beach

Keefers Cove Beach

Beaumaris Bay

The beach at Aspendale has several colourful beach huts.

Port Phillip as seen from Olivers Hill, Frankston on the eastern shore of the bay

• Mentone Beach - Mentone
• Parkdale Beach - Parkdale
• Mordialloc Beach - Mordialloc
• Aspendale Beach - Aspendale
• Edithvale Beach - Edithvale
• Chelsea Beach - Chelsea
• Bonbeach Beach - Bonbeach
• Carrum Beach - Carrum
• Seaford Beach - Seaford

Long Island Beach

• Frankston Beach - Frankston
• South Frankston Beach - Frankston/Frankston South

Between Beaumaris and Dromana Bays

• Daveys Bay Beach - Mount Eliza
• Mount Eliza Beach - Mount Eliza

Canadian Bay Beach

• Half Moon Bay Beach - Mount Eliza
• Ranelagh Beach - Mount Eliza
• Moondah Beach - Mount Eliza
• Sunnyside North Beach - Mount Eliza
• Sunnyside Beach - Mount Eliza
• Mills Beach - Mornington

Mills Beach East

• Shire Hall Beach - Mornington
• Mothers Beach - Mornington
• Royal Beach - Mornington
• Fishermans Beach - Mornington
• Fosters Beach - Mornington

Fosters Slip

• Fossil Beach - Mornington
• Dava Beach - Mount Martha
• Birdrock Beach - Mount Martha
• Craigie Beach - Mount Martha
• Hawker Beach - Mount Martha
• Mount Martha Beach North - Mount Martha
• Mount Martha Beach South - Mount Martha

Dromana Bay

• Pebble Cove Beach - Mount Martha
• Safety Beach - Safety Beach
• Dromana Beach - Dromana

Anthonys Nose Beach - Dromana

Capel Sound

• McCrae Beach - McCrae
• Rosebud Beach - Rosebud
• Rosebud West Beach - Rosebud West
• Tootgarook Beach - Tootgarook
• Rye Beach - Rye

Rye Beach East

Rye Beach West

• Tyrone Beach - Rye
• Blairgowrie Beach - Blairgowrie
• Camerons Bight Beach - Sorrento
• Sullivan Bay Beach - Sorrento
• Sorrento Front Beach - Sorrento
• Policemans Point Beach - Sorrento

Point Nepean beaches

• Shelley Beach - Portsea
• Portsea Front Beach - Portsea
• Ticonderoga Beach - Portsea
• Observatory Point Beach - Portsea (unstable sand dunes)
• Nepean Bay Beaches - Portsea (dangerous, no public access)
• The Rip

Lonsdale Bay

• The Rip
• Pier Beach - Point Lonsdale
• Point Lonsdale Front Beach - Point Lonsdale
• Springs Beach - Point Lonsdale
• Narrows Beach - Queenscliff (approved dog beach)
• Santa Casa Beach - Queenscliff
• Queenscliff Beach - Queenscliff

Between Lonsdale and Corio Bays

• The Bluff Beach - St Leonards
• St Leonards Beach - St Leonards
• Indented Head Beach - Indented Head
• Half Moon Bay Beach - Indented Head
• Indented Head Northern Beaches - Indented Head
• Portarlington Eastern Beaches - Portarlington
• Portarlington Beach - Portarlington
• The Dell - Clifton Springs

Corio Bay

• Point Henry Beaches - Moolap
• Eastern Beach - Geelong
• Western Beach - Geelong
• Rippleside Beach - Rippleside
• St Helens Beach - North Geelong
• Limeburners Bay Beach - Corio
• Avalon Beach - Avalon

Between Corio and Altona Bays

Much of this coastline is undeveloped and is occupied by either military facilities or the Western Treatment Plant.

• Werribee South Beach - Werribee South
• Campbells Cove Beaches - Werribee South

Altona Bay

• Altona Beach - Altona
• Seaholme Beach - Seaholme
• Williamstown Beach - Williamstown
• Shelley Beach - Williamstown
• Yarra River