Beaches
Further information: Beaches in Port PhillipPort Phillip hosts 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 difficult or impossible, 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 rocky cliffs can also be found, mostly in the southern reaches. Major beaches include:
- St Kilda Beach - St Kilda
- Middle Brighton Beach - Brighton
- Sandringham Beach - Sandringham
- Mentone Beach - Mentone
- Carrum Beach - Carrum
- Seaford Beach - Seaford
- Frankston Beach - Frankston
- Mothers Beach - Mornington
- Safety Beach - Safety Beach
- Dromana Beach - Dromana
- Rosebud Beach - Rosebud
- Rye Beach - Rye
- Sorrento Front Beach - Sorrento
- Portsea Front Beach - Portsea
- Queenscliff Beach - Queenscliff
- Eastern Beach - Geelong
- Rippleside Beach - Rippleside
- Werribee South Beach - Werribee South
- Altona Beach - Altona
- Seaholme Beach - Seaholme
- Williamstown Beach - Williamstown
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“They commonly celebrate those beaches only which have a hotel on them, not those which have a humane house alone. But I wished to see that seashore where man’s works are wrecks; to put up at the true Atlantic House, where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is but dry land, and that is all you can say of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)