When you read that this is a beach park, you really need to believe it. There is a fence between you and the beach, but that is all that stops you from enjoying a beautiful swimming beach, which is patrolled in the summer holidays. Christies Beach has enjoyed some updates recently including a beautiful camp kitchen that was opened in time for Christmas 2008. It is a wonderful place to gather with friends when your caravan, cabin or tent is just not quite big enough.
If you do not want to spend all day in the water, then you can use the town boat ramp to launch yourselves onto the water for a change. As with all good sea side towns there is a Surf Club, but what makes this so good is that it is just below the park right on “their” beach and open for meals. You really do not have far to go to enjoy this surf club.
As you can imagine with a beach park it can be very busy in the summer months, but if you talk to the operators, John or Charmaine Ferguson, they will give you some wonderful insights into the beauty of the area all year. Charmaine has a particular fondness for winter when, as she puts it, “if you want to see nature at work sit back and watch the winter storms roll in.” To make this a little easier to do their lovely cabins overlook the beach and are perfectly places to watch those storms.
Part of the on-going planning is to put in a couple more cabins (for those winter storms) and a new playground. The park is a wonderful spot for families to enjoy being together and doing all of those holiday things on a beach that are such an important part of being together.
Christies Beach town is on the famous Fleurieu Peninsular and has a market (proudly named “The Original Open Market”) on the first and third Sunday of each month.
It is a great park to use as a base while you explore the Fleurieu Peninsular and discover why it is such a popular place to spend that well earned and much needed holiday.
