Dee Why Beach - Sydney


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Dee Why Beach North End

Dee Why Overview

Location 18kms North of Sydney
Nearest Town: 600m
Tasman Sea Beach Facilities Activities Rating Accommodation
Beach: Sand Patrolled: Yes Sunbathing: 81% Hotel/Resort: No
Length: 600m Toilets: Yes Swimming: 80% Caravan Park: No
Faces: South East Showers: Yes Surfing: 84% Beach Food: Yes
Top: Long Reef Beach Picnic Area: Yes Kitesurf: 78% Café/Kiosk: Yes
Bottom: Rockshelf with Pool Tidal Pool: Yes, South End Fishing: 77% Restaurants: Yes
Surrounds: Houses, Lagoon Pier: No Shore Dive: No Risk Level: 2 - Care Required
Reef: Yes Other: Snorkelling: 53% Dumping Waves: Yes
Ocean Swell: Yes Access: 1 - Easy Spear Fishing: 50% Frequent Rips: Yes
Other: Car Park: Pay Walks: 79% Shark Attacks: 1934. Fatal
Transport: Bus Other: Other: Strong swell on Rockplatform
Popular surfing break North of Manly



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Surfing

Dee Why Surfbreaks

Dee Why Point is a good right hand point break that works mostly in the colder months. Needs good southerly swell to really get going, offshore wind is NW. Right Hand break that can join with beach breaks in right conditions. Entry on big days is usually from the rockshelf. Surfing can be very competitive here.



History

Name

An Diary Entry from James Meehan, who surveyed the Northern Beaches area around 1815, described the beach with the initials 'DY'. No one knows for sure what the initials stand for, if anything, but the name stuck, sepearating into two words.. .Dee Why, in 1952



Created by 58.108.86.149. Last Modification: Thursday 28 of April, 2011 19:21:20 EST by admin.

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