The Marina Mindarie

Use this listing for Mindarie Marina as a full-service recreational marina and hospitality precinct. The operator lists fully serviced 10 m to 20 m berths, catamaran berths, casual moorings, boat ramp access, fuel and secure jetty access, plus dining and visitor amenities at Ocean Falls Boulevard.

Berthing is on floating jetties behind the wave attenuator, in fully serviced pens of 10, 12, 15, 18 and 20 metres plus dedicated catamaran berths, and every jetty is reached through a secure gatehouse operating on a security tag system; all jetty fees include utilities, meaning power and water at the berth without separate metering surprises. Casual berthing is genuinely catered for: overnight secured berths are available at casual rates with a two-night minimum and bookings essential, and casual daily moorings can be taken on the boardwalk in front of the restaurants.

The fuel operation sells diesel and premium unleaded petrol on site. Ashore, the marina provides toilets, showers and laundry for berth holders, a boat ramp with launching facilities, and ticketed trailer parking with casual tickets or annual passes available from Guest Services. Free wifi runs through the hospitality venues. Fishing and dive charters operate from the marina for those without their own hull, and the Yacht Harbour Association listing adds a chandlery, convenience store, customer lounge and business facilities to the service sheet, alongside the restaurants, bars, cafes and retail of the boardwalk and The Marina Hotel's accommodation overhead.

What the marina does not have is a travel lift or hardstand of its own; haul-outs are typically done at Hillarys or by mobile contractors, a gap worth noting for owners planning refits. Bookings and berth enquiries run through the marina office on 08 9305 9305, and the 5 Gold Anchor rating reflects audited standards across the whole facility.

Mindarie sits on a straight, exposed piece of the Perth coast with no natural shelter, so the harbour's breakwaters and wave attenuator do real work; the entrance is short and marked, but westerly swell wraps onto the leads and summer sea breezes can make the final approach lumpy, particularly for smaller boats arriving late in the day. Winter fronts push heavy swell onto this coast and entries are best made on the making tide with the leads held squarely. Once inside, the water is millpond calm.

The local boating ground is the northern end of Marmion Marine Park and the reef line that runs past Burns Beach and Ocean Reef, giving crayfish, dhufish and herring close in and deeper pelagic water a short run out; Rottnest Island lies roughly 20 nautical miles to the south-west for a day trip, and Hillarys Boat Harbour is a quick hop south if Mindarie's berths are full.

Ashore, the precinct covers most needs without a car: supermarkets and bigger retail at the nearby Ocean Keys centre, boardwalk dining beside the pens, and accommodation in the hotel above the marina for crew or family. Claytons Beach, the dog-friendly surf beach just north of the harbour, is the local walking spot. Visiting skippers should book casual berths ahead on summer weekends, when the combination of Perth's boating population and the precinct's events calendar keeps the gatehouse busy, and note the two-night minimum that applies to casual overnight pens.

Mindarie Keys itself is worth a wander for first-time visitors; the canal estate that surrounds the harbour was dug from coastal dunes in the 1980s and 1990s, and the whole precinct, marina included, is younger than most of the boats riding at its pens.