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Top 30 beaches
These beaches have
Broken Bay
been selected for their safe
Cowan Creek Palm Beach swimming, water sports, Swimming Pool Surfing Windsurfing Fishing Scuba Diving Picnic/Barbecue Restaurant/Café
facilities available or their
picturesque setting.
Whale Beach
The Basin Avalon ●  ●  
Balmoral ● ●  ●  ●
Avalon The Basin
Pittwater Bilgola
KU-RING-GAI CHASE Beach ● 
Bilgola Bondi Beach ●   ●  ●
Bronte ●   ●  ●
Camp Cove ●
Newport Clifton Gardens ● ●  ● 
Beach Clovelly ●  ●  ●
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN Curl Curl ●  
● ●  ●  ●
Coogee
Dee Why
●   ●  ●

Fairy Bower
●
Fishermans Beach
 ●  ●
Freshwater ●   ● 
Narrabeen Gordons Bay  ●
Long Reef  ●  ●
Fishermans Beach Manly Beach ●  ●  ●
Long Reef Maroubra  ●  ●  ●
Narrabeen ●   
Dee Why Newport Beach ●  ●  
Obelisk Bay
Curl Curl Palm Beach ●  ●   ●
Parsley Bay ● 
Freshwater Seven Shillings Beach ● 
Manly Beach Shark Bay ●  ●
Fairy Shelly Beach ●  ●
Bower Shelly Tamarama   ●  ●
Beach Watsons Bay ● ●  ● ●
Whale Beach ●  ●   ●
Middle
Balmoral Harbour
Obelisk Bay Camp Cove
Clifton Watsons The Types of Waves
Gardens Bay Cresting waves can be
Shark Parsley Bay identified by the foam
Bay that is created as they
break from the top. These
waves are ideal for board
Seven Shillings riding and body surfing.
Beach
SYDNEY Plunging waves curl into a
Bondi Beach tube before breaking close
Tamarama to the shore. Fondly known
as “dumpers”, these waves
Bronte Beach
Key should only be tackled by
Clovelly experienced surfers.
Patrolled beach
Gordons Bay Surging waves are those
Surfboard hire that don’t appear to break.
Coogee They often travel way into
0 kilometres 3 the beach before break­
0 miles 2 ing and can easily sweep
Maroubra
a young child off its feet.

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