Floreat Beach

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Floreat Beach is in Western Australia, located off West Coast Highway, directly next to City Beach.

The beach's southern extremity is a groyne and continues north past a drain pipe until Hale Road dog beach. In front of the beach area near the groyne there is a carpark, boardwalk, grassed area and cycle path. The groyne has a seasonally occurring sand-bar that forms a left breaking wave that is popular with bodyboarders and surfers. Unfortunately many of the stand up surfers think that they rule the wave even though most of the year it is nothing more than a closeout. Bodyboarders are the true gatekeepers of the wave and are also less ugly than the surfers. But only a boddyboarder would know the feeling. On weekends or public hoilidays floreat groyne gets very crowded and you can find 3456 standups sitting 43 metres away from the groyne so that they won't damage their boards. Unlike most Perth waves, Floreat pumps all day every day, and is often too hectic for most of the perth population, therefore only attracting a small crowd of hardcore, charging, local bodyboarders. The beach is not as popular as neighbouring City Beach, mainly as it does not have surf life savers.