Andy Pleasance didn't expect to spend New Year's Day like this.

For four hours on Sunday morning, he scrubbed graffiti off the walls of his beach box in Portsea, and joined his neighbours in collecting 20 rubbish bags of glass bottles and other trash from the sand.

Pam Murphy and her granddaughters Holly and Emily inspect graffiti on their Point King beach box on Sunday Credit:Mathew Lynn

All 11 beach boxes on Point King Beach, Portsea, as well as three jetties, were vandalised some time on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Police are investigating.

Tags and slogans were scrawled on the beach boxes in red, orange, purple and black spray paint. But apart from one broken balustrade, owners of the bathing boxes reported no structural damage.