Johanna Beach

Johanna Beach is a long, wild sandy beach on Victoria's southwest coast in the locality of Johanna, within Colac Otway Shire and Great Otway National Park. Located off the Great Ocean Road, it is renowned for its powerful surf, expansive dunes and remote natural setting. The beach is popular for surfing, fishing and beach walking, and is a key stop on the Great Ocean Walk.

Visitors can expect a wide, exposed sandy beach backed by dunes and coastal scrub within Great Otway National Park. The beach is undeveloped and unpatrolled with powerful surf and strong rips. Facilities are basic with a car park, toilets and nearby campground. Visitors can walk along the sand, watch surfers, fish from the beach, photograph the coastline and access the Great Ocean Walk. Swimming is generally not recommended due to hazardous conditions.

Johanna Beach lies within the traditional lands of the Gadubanud people of the Eastern Maar Nation and is now part of Great Otway National Park. The surrounding Otways region was historically used for timber and farming before conservation as a national park, and the beach has long been known as a challenging surf location on the Great Ocean Road coast.

The area holds cultural significance for the Eastern Maar peoples as part of Gadubanud Country. In contemporary visitor culture it is valued as a remote surf beach and natural coastal landscape within Great Otway National Park and the Great Ocean Walk experience.