Beaches of Melbourne
If its beaches you want
More than just beachesMelbourne being located on Port Phillip Bay, provides the visitor with access to sandy beaches, many of which are only a short bike ride from Melbourne central business district. Popular with locals, visitors and tourists to Melbourne, the spacious beaches are the perfect place to relax, sunbathe, swim, run, walk, ride, rollerblade and more.Melbourne's beach locations have excellent facilities, such as restaurants, cafés, bars, water sports, beach games, beach equipment hire, outdoor picnic tables and barbecue areas. Many of beaches are regularly patrolled and during the summer months have lifesavers on duty.  Not considered to be a major tourist attraction of Melbourne, the bay beaches, although not surf beaches, still provide the visitor with a beach culture holiday, where they are able to boogy board, stand up paddle board, windsurf at safe, clean, swim beaches. Melbourne provides beaches with a things to do attitude.  Our spectacular bay foreshore extends for kilometres from Port Melbourne along the board walk of Beconsfield Parade containing the beach of Middle Park, through to cosmopolitian St Kilda then onto Elwood. Here try using the continuous shared cycle and pedestrian pathway through the recreation reserves which provide an important habitat for indigenous vegetation and wildlife. We then travel the Beach Road now becoming more popular for bike rides than car travel where the bay become a continuous vista and the beaches are among the most popular in Melbourne. From Brighton then Hampton, Sandringham, Half Moon Bay, Beaumaris, Mentone, Mordialloc, Aspendale North, Carrum Seaford and finally on to the gateway to the Mornington Peninsula, Frankston. | Beaches west of the cityHead over the expansive structure of the Westgate Bridge, which will deliver you a spectacular bay vista looking south and the city and surounds looking north. to the beach hamlet of Williamstown. then onto Altona. |