Squeaky Beach

Squeaky Beach is a 300-metre beach break inside Wilsons Promontory National Park, framed by massive granite boulders on both sides. The name comes from the ultra-fine quartz sand that literally squeaks underfoot. Pick up a handful and rub it between your fingers to hear it.

The beach faces southwest and picks up swell through a window between Norman Island and the Great Glennie Islands. When conditions line up, it is one of the best surf spots on the Prom with left and right breaks on the sand. Best on a SW swell with offshore easterly winds at high tide. Summer tends to be flat, while spring and winter bring more consistent waves.

The granite boulders create channels and rock pools worth exploring at low tide, and the snorkelling around the edges is good on calm days. But this is not a calm swimming beach. Strong rips run through here persistently and the wave conditions make swimming risky.

You get here via a 1.2km walk from the Tidal River car park along a flat bush track through tea tree, about 20 minutes each way. There are no facilities at the beach itself. Toilets, parking, and a small general store are back at Tidal River.