Point Walter (Western Australia)

Point Walter is a point in the Swan River, Western Australia. It is located on the southern shore and forms the western end of Melville Water. Point Walter is located in the suburb of Bicton and is on the opposite side of the river to the suburbs of Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove, and Dalkeith. It is popularly used for kitesurfing, windsurfing, fishing, passive recreation, swimming, diving courses and picnicking. Point Walter was named in 1827 by Sir James Stirling, in honour of his favourite older brother, Walter Stirling.

Point Walter is notable for the sand bar or spit that extends over 1 km into the river, sections of which often submerge under high water. The Sandbar is a prevalent in Dreamtime of the local Aboriginals, the Beeliar family, who were part of the Whadjuk Noongars. The group believed the Sandbar was the hair of the Charnok woman Junda. The nearby cliffs at Blackwall Reach were her footprints. The Charnok woman is said to have carried spirit children in her hair, who, when they fell out, formed rock. When she reached Wave Rock, she jumped off it into the sky, with her hair forming the milky way and the spirit children forming the stars. The area was known to Aboriginals as Dyoondalup/Dyundalup, meaning in Noongar 'Place of Long Flowing White Hair' or 'Place of white sand'. Blackwall Reach is known to the Aboriginals as Jenalup, a word meaning 'The Place Where Feet Make a Track.' It was a woman's place, and when the group wanted to move to another part of the river, the men would swim across the river to the sandbank, where they would meet the women, as it was a meeting place.

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