Hillarys Boat Harbour

Fun little shopping center north of Perth filled with boutiques. I made the mistake of going on a very rainy, windy day. The view of the water and the walk along the coast was still worth it but would have been a much better experience on a sunny day. Still, it was a lot of fun to poke around all the restaurant and boutiques. Would totally recommend stopping on your way along the coast. Gorgeous at sunset!

Favorite Place north of the river perfect for Sunday’s in the summer. Well anytime really, great for families to

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Nice casual place to take visitors and catch up with friends you haven’t seen in a while. For people who live further north it can be pretty tricky to compete with the variety of eating options in the city and mt lawley. Unless you have a particular restaurant you love in mind (cough Oscars cough) it can be hard to pick a good place.
Hillarys boat harbour can get a bit full on in summer but there is a lovely mix of places for young, old and can suit most occasions.

This place is intense on a sunny day.
There are a tonne of shopping options at Hillarys now, with perveryors of chocolates, surf-​wear, sheep wool and all those other uniquely Australian gifts tourists love.
To be honest I try and avoid the place but the other day I was in the area and just had to get me a burrito and Mad Mex was the only Mexican-​ish place in the area. The traffic was backed up at both entries (side note 2 of the 3 rear-​end prangs I have been involved in, happened at Hillarys…) my boyfriend had to do laps of the car park (because there were no bays free) while I ran in and got us some burritos.
A good place to take tourists if you’re really running out of things to do with them.
The beach is man made and the whole experience feels a bit manufactured.

Hillarys Boat Harbour is a pleasant way to spend a day at the beach, without getting wet or sand in places I would rather not mention. There are lots of choices in food, from casual to more formal dining. They have lots of different speciality shops or you can just walk around and enjoy the seabreeze. On the weekends it becomes packed with tourists and families. After dark it turns a little seedy, with a few pubs and nightclubs and the occasional altercation.

Hillarys is the go-​to holiday spot for young families. Visitors of this kind won’t regret the 30 minute trip out from the city. There are two safe and secure swimming spots, a playground and an awesome harbour vibe, not to mention the Sorrento Quay Boardwalk offering all kinds of fun food options and Aqwa only a stone’s throw away. In the summer, a host of show rides and alley games also come alive, creating a really dynamic carnival atmosphere. It’s clean, it’s calm and it’s totally accessible.

The best place to come when you are stuck for somewhere on a Sunday and fancy a bit of a coastal drive.
There is plenty of water to swim in at the manmade beach and is very suitable for kids as there are no waves, it is very shallow and no chance of sharks. Not so suitable for pumped up surfer types.
It is not only the people watching that gets addictive here, its also the boat watching, wodnering and dreaming.
Someday soon I will belong in Hillary’s Boat Harbour.

Mega tourist spot, it was packed like sardines when we dropped by yesterday. Strips of cafes, shops and boutiques selling swimwear, beach accessories and buckets and spades to frolic at the man made beach.
The beauty of Hillarys is its huge offering of cafes and food, shopping, bars, kids activities and it’s prime attraction, it’s boating activities.
It’s truly a package which makes it so popular with tourists and locals.
It’s definitely a popular spot during school holidays or when your pimpled notorious cousin from interstate comes to visit.
Inspite of the many attractions, the weather wasn’t encouraging as it was in the mid 30s hence we were only to happy to leave the crowd infested place and head back to our cool SUV.
If you enjoy the peak of the sun, crowd and sweaty swimmers, come on down to Hillarys.

Hillary you have the office!
If you are looking for the «defibrilator of Perth» to inject some adrenalin and showcase the most extensive amusement park, playground, swimming pool, boat show and general hot spot to be seen.. . this my friends, is it!
What a grest idea this Harbour is and to have decked it out so fittingly with an uninterrupted view of water. If it isn’t the water itself, it’s a water based attraction like the AQWA, The Great Escape or the Naturaliste Marine Discovery Centre! This is also a great place to catch a ferry to rotto (special sunset promo for $ 29 a pop at the moment) and where whale watching and fishing charters depart and, if you feel like taking a plunge and the pontoon isn’t giving you enough of a buzz, you can blow some bubbles with the Perth Diving Academy who operate out here too!
As the temperature rises, as does Hillarys popularity. Every which way you look it’s a super chill place to just see, even if you don’t feel like making a splash. I love the waterfront restaurants (breakwater especially) and am still working my magic to network myself onto one of the boats for a more luxurious tour of the Harbour, until then– I’ll have to make do with simple pleasures-​!
Hillarys’ Habour — a marine monopoly!

The area around Hillarys Boat Harbour offers two swimming options. One swimming option involves the beach outside the harbour, where swimmers can face the brunt of the ocean. The other option is the enclosed area within the harbour.
The area is very calm — basically, it is a salt-​water swimming pool. It is a safe place to take young children for a dip, or for those who are looking for a gentle place to cool off before having dinner at one of the boat harbour’s many eateries.
The issue with the boat harbour basically boils down to this: there are many people in the area, and not all are civically-​minded. Therefore, it is not uncommon to see floating rubbish in the water, which is a turn-​off.
The boat harbour is an average place for swimming — only good if you like the concept of dodging plastic bottles and cigarette butts.

This is not a review of the Hillarys Markets, which run every Saturday, nor of the Sorrento Quay, which is full of shops, cafes and restaurants I plan on reviewing one at a time over the next couple of weeks. Instead, it is a review of the boat harbour itself, which for the next couple of months, as the mercury rises, is going to be the go-​to swimming spot for the vast majority of locals.
It isn’t hard to see why. The area is enclosed, which means that it’s safe, and it offers immediate access to the shops and restaurants mentioned above. A relatively small area, it nevertheless includes all the variety one looks for in a beach: the shallows for toddlers and families, the slightly deeper waist-​height depths for ball games, and best of all a much deeper, colder section over towards the boats and the pier, the latter of which serves as the launch pad for every madcap, boardshorted, dreadlocked teenager who wishes to show off to the stick-​thin girls with leaps and somersaults and other not entirely safe means of entering the water.
It’s not the place for ocean swimming – there’s a nearby dog beach that is better-​suited to that sort of thing – and the sheer number of families with children may put some people off. But as a place to cool off before sourcing a drink or a bite to eat, not to mention as a place for people watching, Hillarys is a one-​stop shop.