Crescent Beach (Surrey)
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Crescent Beach is a community within South Surrey
South Surrey
South Surrey is a neighborhood of Surrey, British Columbia. It borders on the city of White Rock, and at 10,535 people, South Surrey has the largest concentration of persons over the age of 60 of all Surrey's town centres...

, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. Crescent Beach is home to Camp Alexandra, the Crescent Beach Pier and Blackie Spit Regional Park, all local landmarks.
As well Crescent Beach is the home of the "Crescent Beach Swim Club", a local club that offers swimming, sailing, tennis, water polo, and triathlon lessons to kids.

On the southern end of Crescent Beach, near the bottom of 101 steps staircase at 24th Ave. is the 120 tonne Crescent Rock boulder . Crescent Rock Beach is the 6.5 km. long rugged strip of shoreline from Crescent Beach to White Rock at the base of the Ocean Park bluffs historically favoured by families and publicly endorsed by Surrey.
http://crescentrockbeach.org/index.shtml

See also

  • Ocean Park (Surrey)
    Ocean Park (Surrey)
    -Pre-colonial:Ocean Park was part of the territory of the Semiahmoo people, one of a group of tribes called the Straits Salish, a division of the Coast Salish....

  • Sunnyside (Surrey)
    Sunnyside (Surrey)
    Sunnyside is a neighbourhood of South Surrey, which in turn is a region of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.-Origin of the name:There is no historical significance to the name, other than that its location is on the sunnier, south slope of the "uplands" of Surrey, on the Semiahmoo peninsula.-First...

  • White Rock, British Columbia
    White Rock, British Columbia
    White Rock is a city in British Columbia, Canada, that lies within the Metro Vancouver regional district. It borders Semiahmoo Bay and is surrounded on three sides by the City of Surrey, British Columbia. To the south lies the Semiahmoo First Nation, which is within the city limits of Surrey...

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