About Bonbeach
Bonbeach is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia, 31 km south-east from Melbourne's
central business district. Its local government
area is the City of Kingston. At the 2011 Census,
Bonbeach had a population of 5,773.
Bonbeach Post Office opened on 19 November
1922 (closing in 1923, then reopening in 1926 on
the opening of the railway station) and finally
closing in 1985.
Bonbeach has a railway station on the
Frankston line and a string of shops on the
Nepean Highway. A long stretch of white sand
beach on Port Phillip extends from Chelsea
southwards to the Patterson River.
Bonbeach has an Australian Rules football team
competing in the Mornington Peninsula
Nepean Football League.
Golfers play at the course of the Patterson River
Country Club alongside the river. Bonbeach
has a school called Bonbeach Primary School.
The Bonbeach Lifesaving Club has been
running
for 75 years.
The Bonbeach Railway Station was used during
the filming of a scene in the Australian
television series Kath & Kim.