The town of Bundeena, on the southern shore of Port Hacking opposite Sydney’s southern suburb of Cronulla, is surrounded by the Royal National Park and has a lovely curving beach. From here you can walk 30 minutes towards the ocean to Jibbon Head, which has another good beach and interesting Aboriginal rock art. Bundeena is the starting point of the coastal walk.


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1. Cronulla Beach

2.02 MILES

Cronulla is a beachy surf suburb south of Botany Bay, its long surf beach (Sydney's only one reachable by train) stretching beyond the dunes to the Botany…

2. Wattamolla Beach

4.2 MILES

About halfway along the coast, Wattamolla Beach is one of the favourite picnic spots in the park and gets pretty busy in summer. It has the great…

3. Royal National Park

4.96 MILES

The 15,091-hectare Royal National Park was established in 1879, making it the oldest national park in the world after Yellowstone in the USA. Stretching…

4. Kamay Botany Bay National Park

6.88 MILES

This national park straddles both heads of Botany Bay, 15km south of Sydney Harbour, enclosing 458 hectares of coastal bushland. Visitors come here to…

5. Garie Beach

7.65 MILES

Three kilometres down a turn-off from the main road, this excellent surf beach is a picturesque spot. Like all of the Royal National Park surf beaches,…

6. Bare Island

7.86 MILES

About 50m offshore at La Perouse is the strange Bare Island, a decaying, grass-tussocked concrete fort built in 1885 to discourage a feared Russian…

7. La Perouse Museum

8.06 MILES

Housed inside the old cable station (1882), this museum has numerous relics from French explorer La Pérouse’s many expeditions, an interesting Aboriginal…

8. Little Congwong Beach

8.1 MILES

A short walk (or swim) from Congwong Beach will land you at Little Congwong, a secluded, unofficially clothing-optional beach.