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My Quest to Visit Every Sydney Beach

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List of Sydney Beaches

How many beaches are there in Sydney?


Well, by my count, there are 179 that are truly swimmable – meaning they’re both safe and clean from pollutants. I’ve left out the ones with surf considered too dangerous, like Little Makaha and Butterbox on Long Reef Point, as well as those where the water quality is poor or likely contaminated, such as the stretches along the middle and upper Georges River extending up towards Chipping Norton Lake.

It also excludes the many small pockets of sand found throughout Port Jackson and Sydney’s rivers. For a beach to make the list, it needs at least twenty metres of sand that stays dry even at high tide – in line with the standards used by coastal scientists.

I’m also counting single stretches of continuous sand as one beach, even if they have multiple surf lifesaving clubs (SLSCs) along them or are commonly referred to as separate beaches. For example, Greenhills, Wanda, Elouera, and North Cronulla, despite being separate SLSCs, are all listed as Cronulla, while Dee Why and Long Reef are combined as Dee Why–Long Reef.

You’ll find a list of Sydney’s beaches below, grouped by region: Pittwater, Northern Ocean, Port Jackson, Eastern Ocean, Botany Bay and the Georges River, Southern Beaches, the Royal National Park, and even Western Sydney.

Pittwater

Western Shore (Ku-ring-gai National Park)

  • West Head Beach
  • Resolute Beach
  • Great Mackerel Beach
  • Currawong Beach
  • Fishermans Beach
  • The Basin 
  • Bonnie Doon
  • Portuguese Beach; 
  • Perry Beach
  • Unnamed beach below Bairne Lookout 

Eastern Shore 

  • Station Beach-Barenjoey Beach
  • Snapperman Beach
  • Sandy Beach
  • Paradise Beach
  • Clareville Beach
  • Taylors Beach
  • South Beach

Southern Shore (Bayview)

Northern Beaches

Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)

North Harbour

Middle Harbour

Sydney Harbour North

Sydney Harbour South -

Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers

Eastern Ocean  

  • Bondi Beach (SLSCs: North Bondi & Bondi)
  • Tamarama Beach
  • Mckenzies
  • Bronte Beach
  • Clovelly Beach
  • Gordons Bay
  • Coogee Beach
  • Maroubra (SLSCs: Maroubra & South Maroubra)
  • Malabar
  • Little Bay 1
  • Little Bay 2

Botany Bay & Georges River

Botany Bay

Georges River 

Southern Beaches

Southern Ocean

Port Hacking & Hacking River

Royal National Park

  • Little Jibon Beach
  • Marley Beach
  • Little Marley Beach
  • Wattamolla Beach
  • Garie Beach

Greater Western Sydney

 

 


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