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The best beaches in Australia
21.07.2023 - 08:26 / roughguides.com / Sydney Harbour
Whether it's surfing, sunbathing or water sports you want to do, our guide to the best beaches in Australia will help you to decide where to lay down your towel.
The information in this article is inspired by The Rough Guide to Australia , your essential guide for visiting Australia .
Bondi Beach is synonymous with Australian beach culture, and indeed, the 1.5 km-long curves of golden sand must be one of the best-known beaches in the world. It’s also the closest ocean beach to the city centre; you can take a train to Bondi Junction and then a ten-minute bus ride, or drive there in twenty minutes.
Big, brash and action-packed, it’s probably not the best place for quiet sunbathing and swimming, but the sprawling sandy crescent is spectacular. Surfing is part of the Bondi legend, the big waves ensuring that there’s always a pack of damp young things hanging around, bristling with surfboards.
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People relaxing on Bondi beach Sydney, Australia © Shutterstock
There are two sections of beach at Balmoral, separated by Rocky Point, a picturesque promontory and noted picnicking spot. The bush of Middle Head provides a gorgeous backdrop to the shady, tree-lined sands at Hunters Bay, which is very popular with families.
Fronting the beach, there’s something very Edwardian and genteel about palm-filled, grassy Hunters Park and its bandstand, which is still used for Sunday jazz concerts and Shakespeare performances in summer. The antiquated air is enhanced by the pretty, white-painted Bathers Pavilion at the northern end, now converted into a restaurant and cafe.
Balmoral Beach in Sydney © Shutterstock
Manly, just above the North Head of Sydney Harbour, is doubly blessed, with both ocean and harbour beaches. It is this combination, and its easy accessibility from central Sydney, that give it the feeling of a holiday village still within the city limits. The South Steyne beach is characterized by the stands of Norfolk pine that line the shore.
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The smaller, less brazen but very lively cousin of Bondi Beach, Laidback Coogee is a long-popular seaside resort teeming with young travellers who flock to the backpackers’ hostels here. The imaginatively modernized promenade is a great place to stroll and hang out; between it and the beach, a grassy park has free electric BBQs, picnic tables and shelters.
Coogee is one of the most popular beaches in Australia for families (there’s an excellent children’s playground above the southern end), while at the northern end, you’ll find the Beach Palace Hotel, a 1980s restoration of the 1887 Coogee Palace Aquarium.
Coogee beach is one of the best beaches in Australia
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