There is an app for the iPhone called "Beachsafe" that finds the nearest beaches to your current position and provides all sorts of useful information, including current weather, water temperature, and surf conditions, and descriptions of the beaches and their facilities compiled by the Surf Life Saving Association.

Beachsafe catalogues 11,915 separate beaches. That's one per day for over 32 years.

Question is if you can survive the trip, since most of Australia is filled with hostile animals or extreme heat

There is a downside to living in Australia: you get reeeeeaaaaalllllyyyy fussy about your beaches. "Sand was too course", "The waves were too small", "Had to walk too far from the car" or the best one "There were other people on it! Looks like we will have to go somewhere else."

Seriously though, we have good beaches in other parts of the country, but the coast of New South Wales is just amazing. Even the snobiest beach snob in Australia has no trouble finding a good beach there.

The number might sound big, but it gets even bigger when you know that we have some really long beaches: I have been to both the 90 Mile and 80 Mile beaches (yes, that is what they are called and yes, they are actually that long without any rocks to break them up - just sand all the way along). There can be some odd things at some of our beaches. Like there are parts of the country where the tide goes so far out, you cannot see the water from the beach anymore: https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1680&bih=916&q=bells+beach+big+waves&oq=bells+beach+big+waves&gs_l=img.3..0.8279.12333.0.12483.22.13.0.5.5.0.380.1662.2-6j1.7.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..10.12.1664.0..0i8i30k1j0i24k1.2CxjvsITQAA#tbm=isch&q=tidal+flats+derby&imgrc=5a5uOxnzSTnaXM%3A

@Diprotodon You left out "the wind is onshore…".

@Diprotodon that is the “best one” and it’s the most real “looks like there is people here, we will have to go somewhere else!”

@Diprotodon yes, as a fellow aussie I can confirm this. Along with ‘There’s too many boats out there!’

I'm going to Australia next year. I'm gonna go to a lot of beaches over there, Straya here I come!

what about smiths beach in victoria?

cowes beach?

Wow.. Australia has 10.000 beaches.. And bali still full with australian tourists..

@Zuperkrunch Meekatharra Meekatharra Meekatharra police station

@Innkah what?? Police station..no..

@Zuperkrunch it’s part of a song

@Innkah ow..never heard that song before, The australian song i know just waltzing matilda

@Zuperkrunch ok https://youtu.be/kAzK8lFluSA enjoy!

@Innkah oh.. I didn't realized that pics comes from this song... Thanx

@Zuperkrunch dude I’m not sure where those pics came from. That song I believe is a Aussie ripoff of johnny cashs “I’ve been everywhere man” but it does exist

@Innkah lol.. The first lyrics sounds similar.. Never heard johnny cash song before but ever watched walk the line movie just focussing on reese witherspoon acting when she got an oscar..

@Zuperkrunch yeh damn, didn’t realise what a good singer she is, that was cool.
Meekatharra is that place in the middle of nowhere that you need to stop for petrol at, seriously don’t make eye contact with anyone, don’t look at anything but what you are doing, get your fuel pay for it and GTFO. Don’t go to the toilet, if you need to go stop on the side off the road 20kms either side of the M and go there. If you have small children with you, do NOT let them out of the car, lock the doors! And whatever you do, DO NOT LOOK AT ANYONE BUT THE PERSON YOU ARE GIVING THE MONEY TO FOR YOUR PETROL. (Unless you like fighting and want to get mobbed by everyone in town. Might look like two people but it’s noootttt)

@Innkah wow.. Sounds an interesting on earth thanx for the heads-up⚠

How many of those beaches though have things that want to kill you.

Or at the very least can kill you if irritated enough?

@sgt_Oddball

All of them.

This is always the answer to any question about Australia and things wanting to kill you.

@sgt_Oddball Well, they'd all have sharks, for a start. Some have saltwater crocodiles. Otherwise it's more a matter of things that kill you accidentally or in self-defence: irukandji, cone-shells, blue-ringed octopuses, stingrays, stonefish, and waves.

@sgt_Oddball well, theres the water, that always wants to kill you by sucking you into the rapids out into the open water where you can easily drown or maybe the nice sand, that buys you alive xD

@sgt_Oddball Something tried to kill me on a beach this morning, while I was exercising my dog. It didn't do a very good job.

(I was standing in the wash of the waves, and a bluebottle's tentacle got looped around my ankle.)

@roselle
Beaches are love, beaches are life

@Australian-Person Nah, Norwegian beaches are better That is the best beach in my area.

@Bendkabah Icelandic beaches are generally pretty but usually a bit "deathy" ;)

https://www.google.is/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=2144&bih=1149&q=reynisfjara+waves&oq=reynisfjara+waves&gs_l=img.3..0i24.735.3980.0.4123.17.14.0.1.1.0.335.2293.0j2j5j2.9.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..8.9.1956...0j0i30j0i19.F96OftEs0Kc#imgrc=2kHj1oqs6-VZ3M%3A

'@Karen' "Icelandic beaches are generally pretty but usually a bit "deathy" ;)" -Thus spoke the travel guide of Mordor. :D

@real-cool-cat Mordor, Iceland, what's the difference? Seriously, all we need is some artist to build a big glowing eye on top of a mountain and we're all set ;)

'@Karen' My dad visited Iceland last year and I was watching the pictures he took, like "Hmm, freezing hell... burning hell... ice castle.. These are real photos? These places actually exists here on Earth and I can visit them? So awesome!" :D

@real-cool-cat Yeah, it's a bit special here ;) An estimated 1/3rd of all lava on Earth in the past 500 years has come from Iceland. That sort of activity tends, with diverse lava types and interacting with ice, tends to build up... interesting geology

Hey, if you ever make it to Iceland, drop me a line, I'll show you around.

@Karen Does the glowing eye have to be on TOP of the mountain?
Can't it be lying in a big bowl on the mountain? Maybe even covered by some snow or something?
I wonder what we could call such a mountain.
Well, "mountain" is "fjall" in icelandic. "Eye" is "auga". And "glacier" is "jökull". So how about Augafjallajökull? Hmm.. Didn't ring quite right. Maybe we'll use the english word for eye, so it would be Eyefjallajökull. Or maybe some mix of these...
Anyway, I'm quite sure pilots, I mean people all over the world would agree that such a mountain could only exist in Mordor.

@Tjalve Well, to be proper, the eye is supposed to be floating sitting atop a tower. So "on top of a steep mountain" seems the closest, does it not?

Oh wait.... Eyefjallajökull... I see where you're going with this one ;) hehe, well played. ;) Yeah, that whole general region can get a bit Mordor-ish ;)

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ftp9G6NN-oc/VigNObU-sHI/AAAAAAAACNA/xj-prE4isBE/s1600/AP110605034666-jpg_214529.jpg

Eyjafjallajökull was actually a rather little one as far as Icelandic volcanoes go. It was a bit scary when Bárðarbunga was preparing to erupt and actually erupting, as that one can be a monster - but it had about as tame of an eruption as it's capable of (still massive, though). Bárðarbunga has caused the largest lava flow on Earth in the Holocene (modern age). And Laki... heh, if Laki goes off again.... the last time it went off the Mississippi River in America froze at New Orleans ;) Killed several million people worldwide, the deadliest of modern times. A "large" volcano in modern times typically kicks off a few million tonnes of sulfuric acid. Laki kicked off 120 million tonnes, plus 2 million tonnes of hydrofluoric acid.

@Bendkabah

https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/width960/3512256_fnggUpplyXVsUEVBsq9Kd8OHdt4TiSSMSS13_2Dd-Ng.jpg

The closest beach near my house I usually go to.

Man i love beaches. I'd want to live in Australia!

@roselle trust me, its not that good

its either too cold to go there or windy or too hot or too many people or too rough or too something or too clam or far away or cloudy or too wet or too dry or too sunny or your too busy or too tired or to annoyed or to lazy or too late or too hungrey or too ful or something else xD

For a better source:

http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/beach

"A beach can be defined as a stretch of sand longer than 20 metres and remaining dry at high tide. Based on this definition, the Coastal Studies Unit at the University of Sydney has counted 10,685 beaches in Australia."

Well, if that's your definition of beach, then it's true

I stole this fact from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4f19su/til_australia_has_10685_beaches_you_could_visit_a/