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Can dogs go on Freshwater Bay beach?
Peppermint Grove, Shire of Peppermint Grove.
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The rules are written below.
Freshwater Bay beach is not the off-leash foreshore. Dogs are on a lead in every area that is not a declared exercise area.
Freshwater Bay beach
The status at the top of the page uses this stretch.
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The reserves page separates Freshwater Bay beach, the swimming beach, from the natural bushland dog exercise area north of Leake Street. The animal management page says dogs must be on a lead in all other areas. This status is Freshwater Bay beach, on a lead.
- All year
- All day: on a leash. Outside those times: on a leash.
Dogs must be on a lead and under control in all other areas including children’s play areas, sporting grounds, public roads or laneways, or within a carpark.
Source: Shire of Peppermint Grove page, checked 27 October 2026.
Also on the council page
- The pin is a guide to the suburb, not the signed boundary.
The map pin is a guide at -31.9980, 115.7680. It is not the boundary between groynes, access tracks or signed zones.
Animal management, Shire of Peppermint Grove