Sydney Beaches: Sydney's water is not particularly warm, even in midsummer [Dec-Feb], and in winter you'd definitely need a wetsuit , a good chunky layer of subcutaneous fat or Russian-style anti-freeze in your veins.
There's swimming at a couple of beaches inside the harbour and lots of sailing but most of the action goes on outside where the South Pacific throws steady surf onto some superb beaches. Bondi and Manly are the closest suburbs for good beach experiences, with Bondi accessible from the centre by car or train/bus and Manly by ferry from Circular Quay. Both trips would take in the region of an hour, but south of Bondi and north of Manly there are plenty more fine strands of sand with increasingly few users.
Manly has a small inner-harbour beach devoid of surf for those with toddlers not ready for a pounding or lap-swimmers who don't want to go out beyond the surf line. |
