Moana Beach

It takes a lot for me to give a beach 5 stars, I mean… I really hate sand. I’ve never got the whole beach thing — the water always seems too cold, sand is annoying, and I’m always chucking glances over at my stuff to check someone’s not stealing it.
Despite this, I love Moana Beach. My family home is just 5 minutes up the road, so it’s always been the beach I come back to.
The best bit about the beach in my opinion, is the dog exercise area, a section of the beach where your dogs can just roam free all year round. For the hairy friend in my life, this is just absolute heaven. Outside of daylight savings hours the entire beach becomes leash free.
My huge hairy border collie X old english sheep dog looks like a drowned rat in seconds.
During Summer the beach is packed, and the Moana Surf Life Saving Club patrols the beaches. Across the road is a great little café (Deep Blue Café) where you can get a meal, or just grab an ice cream.
Moana is definitely my favourite beach, but if we could just get the water the temp it is in Fiji perhaps I’d consider going in!

I had one of the best days of my life here with a few close friends. We parked on the beach with a carton of Strongbow and frolicked till past sunset. It was Christmas time and we had naughty pictures with Christmas elves set up on peoples front lawns. Still got presents that year though.
That’s right, you can park on the beach, turn up the radio, or CD player if you’re lucky enough, and dance around like a hippy in the sunshine. It’s nice to swim here too, theres a bit of seaweed but not enough to be horrible, bring a picnic which is what we forgot because it get’s hungry out there.

Big fan of the one and only beach you can park your car on!!! Even though there were some issues about that this year the public support won the vote and so the tradition continues.
The benefits are substantial. When you have a family of 5 it is so much easier to get everything there when you can drive your car right onto the beach. And easier to keep all your stuff together and not have to carry all the buckets and boogie boards and towels and kids all down to the beach in one go. Plus you can have an esky in your car to keep drinks cool and take a packed lunch.
We went here with friends from interstate recently who have nothing like it over there. Especially having a baby with us at the time it made it so much easier having the car so close.
Plus the water is still georgeous here and the kids love every minute we spend here. Does get really busy though in summer — as you would expect! And make sure you leave before the tide comes in… lol!