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| Coogee Beach is one of the smaller, more
intimate beaches in Sydney, yet in the summer it can get as crowded as any. Maybe
not as famous as Bondi Beach, but a large number of eastern suburbs beach lovers
prefer it to the more popular, high-profile Bondi. Here at Coogee Beach you can
be pretty much alone and even get rid of your cossies if you wanted to.
With its hilly streets of California-style apartment blocks looking onto a compact
pretty beach enclosed by two cliffy green-covered headlands, Coogee has a snugness
and a friendly local feel that its cousin Bondi just can't match. Everything is
close to hand: Arden Street has a down-to-earth strip of cafés that compete
with each other to sell the cheapest cooked breakfast, while the main shopping
street, Coogee Bay Road, running uphill from the beach has a choice selection
of coffee spots and eateries, plus a big supermarket. The imaginatively modernized
promenade is a great place to stroll and hang out; between it and the beach a
grassy park has free electric barbecues, picnic tables and shelters.
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Coogee Beach Guide |  |
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Coogee is a great place to hang out. It has some great cafes and restaurants,
clubs and pubs, and good swimming at its ocean beach and at several ocean pools
and some excellent diving and snorkelling nearby. It is connected to some other
great Sydney beaches by a well maintained and scenic coastal walking path. This
is a fairly easy walk and you can walk the entire length of the track in a couple
of hours. The track goes north to south from Bondi Beach, Tamarama, Bronte, Clovelly,
Coogee and Maroubra.
Coogee Beach is a clean and relatively safe
beach. It is an ocean beach so you can get some strong currents from time to time.
The beach is patrolled by life guards 7 days a week during the swimming season.
It is, however, usually best to swim between the flags. | |
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at Coogee Beach? | | One of Coogee's
chief pleasures are its baths, beyond the southern end of the beach. The first,
McIvers Baths, for women and children only, is known by locals as Coogee Women's
Pool (noon-5pm; 20¢); it's suitably secluded, with plenty of hidden rocks,
for nude sunbathing if you prefer. Just south of women's pool, Wylie's Baths,
a saltwater pool on the edge of the sea, is at the end of Neptune Street (7am-7pm;
$2) with big decks to lie on, and solar-heated showers. Immediately south of Wylie's,
Trenerry Reserve's spread of big flat rocks offer tremendous views and make a
great place to chill out. | | |
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Life Savers at Coogee Beach | | Coogee
Beach is a clean and relatively safe beach. It is an ocean beach so you can get
some strong currents from time to time. The beach is patrolled by life guards
7 days a week during the swimming season. It is, however, usually best to swim
between the flags. | | |
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Coogee Beach | | Coogee
is another long-popular seaside resort, almost on a par with Manly and Bondi.
Dominated by the extensive Coogee Bay Hotel, which sits on the centre of beachfront
Arden Street and is one of Sydney's best-known music venues, Coogee has had a
reputation for entertaining Sydneysiders since Victorian times. At the northern
end of the beach, the dome you can see over the Beach Palace Hotel is an 1980s
restoration of the 1887 Coogee Palace Aquarium; in its heyday a gigantic dance
floor surrounded by tanks of exotic fish that could accommodate 3000 pleasure-seekers;
you can now eat yum cha and some pretty good Chinese-styleseafood under the roof.
If the Coogee Palace wasn't extreme enough, a vast entertainment pier opened inthe
1920s with a 1400-seat theatre as its centrepiece, but it wasn't a match for the
strong surf and lasted less than ten years. . | |
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| Lady Elliot Island |
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Lady Elliot Island is the most southerly island within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Bird watchers also flock here to observe 57 species of birds. A fully equipped dive centre on the island caters for all interests and abilities - offering resort dives for the beginner through to advanced dives for the qualified. Dive courses are also offered. |
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| Holloways Beach |
Holloways Beach is growing in stature with the establishment of a resort on the waterfront. A very nice restaurant and café make Holloways a pleasant beach in all circumstances.
To access Holloways Beach, follow the Captain Cook Highway north until you reach the roundabout with the sign HOLLOWAYS BEACH. |
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| Tamarama Beach |
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Take extreme caution when swimming at Tamarama Beach. While only 80m long, Tamarama has a great wave climate. Tamarama is considered the most dangerous patrolled beach in New South Wales, with more rescues per thousand bathers than any other of Sydney's beaches. |
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| Whitehaven beach |
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Whitehaven beach is a pristine stretch of pure white sand, situated on the eastern side of the uninhabited Whitsunday Island. Fringed by crystal clear water and lush tropical rainforests, the 99% pure silica (quartz) beach extends for over 7 kms. A sawmill to process this timber once operated on Sawmill Beach in Cid Harbour. |
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| Chinaman's Beach |
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Chinaman's Beach, in Sydney Harbour's Lower North Shore region, is a gorgeous, peaceful beach, close to busy Balmoral. Popular with families and children of all ages, Sydney's Chinaman's Beach has excellent facilities for water sports. |
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| Dunk Island |
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Mission Beach Dunk Island Connections is an owner operated coach transfer service for the North Queensland region. Taking scenic routes between Port Douglas, Cairns, Mission Beach, Dunk Island and Bedarra Island, our air conditioned coaches operate 7 days per week, 364 days per year. |
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| Bronte Beach |
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Bronte Beach: This Beach is just walk away distance from the Famous Bondi Beach. Bronte Beach has Considerable Less Traffic than its native beach. Bronte Beach is Bit Smaller in size considering other Beaches here. The Sydney shoreline encompasses over 200 miles of white sandy beaches, exhibiting a variety of atmospheres from cosmopolitan Bondi Beach to majestic Cronulla. |
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| Coogee Beach |
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Coogee Beach is one of the smaller, more intimate beaches in Sydney, yet in the summer it can get as crowded as any. Maybe not as famous as Bondi Beach, but a large number of eastern suburbs beach lovers prefer it to the more popular, high-profile Bondi. |
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