Somers Foreshore Beach (Somers)

Somers beach is a long, relatively calm beach, with most activity centred on the yacht club.

Somers is a holiday settlement on the bluffs overlooking the Western Passage to Western Port. Somers Beach is 3 km long, running between the eastern bluffs and rocks and the mouth of Merricks Creek. A foreshore reserve backs the entire beach and incorporates the 20m high vegetated bluffs, with a low foredune between the bluffs and the beach.

In places, the shoreline changes have cut into the dune and bluffs and a number of ineffective remedies including a seawall, groynes and car tyres have been used to counteract the changes.

The beach is often narrow and steep with deep water at high tide, and sand and reef flats exposed at low tide. The Somers Yacht Club is located on the beach and small yachts and sail boats are commonly seen off the beach.

Swimming is relatively safe under the usual calm conditions, with a drag down the beach in westerly winds when a chop is running.

The beach has a General Beach Hazard Rating of 3/10 (Least hazardous)

Access for Dogs:

Dogs are prohibited from the beach between 9am and 7pm throughout the Daylight Saving period. Outside of these times, dogs must be on leash at all times.

Review:

There is a water tap where someone has provided a container at the edge of the carpark at the top of the path down to the beach. There are also toilets at the side of the car park. The walk down to the beach is about 70 steps, initially a wooden staircase and then wide asphalt steps.

It is a reasonably narrow sandy beach backed by the hill with scrubby coastal vegetation. About 150m to the east is a rocky point. To the west the beach is littered with large dead trees. After a few hundred metres the beach peters out and there are walls of rocks to control erosion and an area for boat access from the Somers Yacht Club boat storage area. The western end of the beach seems to be a seaweed trap.