Frankston Beach - Melbourne


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Frankston Beach looking North from Pier

Frankston Beach Overview

Location 41kms South-East of Melbourne
Nearest Town: 300m
Port Phillip Bay Beach Facilities Activities Rating Accommodation
Beach: Sand Patrolled: Yes Sunbathing: 78% Hotel/Resort: Yes
Length: 2kms Appox Toilets: Yes Swimming: 77% Caravan Park:
Faces: West Showers: Yes Surfing: No Beach Food: Yes
Top: Seaford Beach Picnic Area: Yes Kitesurf: 81% Café/Kiosk: Yes
Bottom: Headland Tidal Pool: No Fishing: 79% Restaurants: Yes
Surrounds: Park and Houses Pier: Yes Shore Dive: No Risk Level: 1 - Generally Safe
Reef: No Other: Snorkelling: 42% Dumping Waves: No
Ocean Swell: No Access: 1 - Easy Spear Fishing: No Frequent Rips: No
Other: Car Park: Yes Walks: 78% Shark Attacks: No Report Found
Transport: Bus, Train Other: Hire Boats Other:
Popular Bay Beach with a pier and some good restaurants.


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Patrolled

Frankston Beach has volunteer lifesavers that patrol the beach on weekends from Nov-April

Fishing

Most fishing is done from the pier. You can also hire boats near the river.

Beach Food

Sofia Restaurant is on the beach near the pier, while Waves on the Beach is a couple of hundred metres north.
Waves on the beach is a cafe on the sand a couple of hundred metres north of the pier

Sunbathing

Sunbathing is very popular on Frankston Beach on hot summer days.

Swimming

There is no ocean swell on this beach, so it is usually calm for swimming.
!Geography
Frankston is a popular Port Phillip Bay beach 41 Kms south-east of Melbourne's CBD. It consists of a long stretch of sandy beach and features a 200m pier popular with fisherman and sightseers. The entire beach is around 2km long, 400m south of the pier is a rocky headland, while appox 1.5km north is the start of Seaford Beach.
Kananook Creek, which runs into the bay just north of Frankston Pier, has a concrete boat ramp and boat hire facilities. The creek runs north around 100m inland from the coast, creating a Kilometre long stretch of foreshore that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.

Name

Frankston Beach, like nearby suburbs including Cranbourne, Hastings and Mornington, was most likely named by Surveyor-General Andrew Clarke in the 1850's after a British General.



Frankston Pier

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