About
What this is
Where Is My Beach was born from a simple frustration: you search for a beach online and you land on sponsored rankings, recycled "Top 10s" and pages that tell you everything except what you actually want to know. This site exists to do it differently.
Every page is an honest field guide — how to get there, what the water looks like, what to do, where to eat nearby, the best photo angles, the real questions people ask. Fact-checked from open sources.
For digital nomads
A beautiful beach is great. A beautiful beach where 4G works, with a decent café five minutes away to get some work done between swims, is better. Every nomad page surfaces the practical layer: network coverage, nearest coworking spot, laptop-friendly cafés within 10 km, plug type, local voltage.
If the beach is remote and there's nothing around, the page says so plainly — that's also part of being useful.
Who edits this site
My name is Fred Gaveau. I grew up in Antibes. At 14, back in 1981, I'd head down to La Salis beach with my Mistral board on a homemade trailer towed behind the moped. There weren't many of us out on the water. The sea, the harbours, boats — that's been my territory forever.
Long before anyone talked about "digital nomads", I was already living that way: laptop under arm, always on the move. Sourcing in China and Eastern Europe, a hotel built in Togo, coastal hops around the Mediterranean, motorbike trips across Europe, travelling with no luggage…
Forty-plus years of tech. From BASIC on a ZX81 in 1981, to an IT company in Savoie, to e-commerce sites, all the way to today's SaaS architectures. A tool, not a religion.
This very site, for instance, runs on Snorklee Analytics — the tool I built on the side to measure audience without cookies and without a consent banner. I eat my own cooking.
Where Is My Beach was born from there — two worlds meeting naturally. What I know about coastlines and anchorages, what I've learned building digital products, and the urge to make something simple and useful for those searching for their ideal beach. The way I was searching for mine.
— Fred
How the pages are built
Every page compiles data from:
- OpenStreetMap — geography, access, amenities
- Wikipedia / Wikivoyage — historical and geological context
- Creative Commons photos — Flickr, Wikimedia, Pexels
Every page is reviewed before publication.