Floreat Beach is in

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

, located off West Coast Highway, directly next to City Beach. The

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's southern extremity is a

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and continues north past a drain pipe until Hale Road dog beach. In front of the beach area near the groyne there is a

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, grassed area, and cycle path. The groyne has a seasonally occurring sand-bar that forms a left

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that is popular with bodyboarders and

surfers Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable ...

. The beach neighbours City Beach, which in season has surf life savers. It is between this beach and City beach that undersea cables are positioned.''Cable links Floreat beach to the world'' .Details of Telstra's optical fibre cable system ( SEA-ME-WE 3) - cable laying at Floreat and City Beach. Subiaco post, 16–17 May 1998, p.17 Floreat Beach is located in the foreshore area.

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