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Tamarama Beach - Sydney Australia


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Tamarama Beach at Dusk

Tamarama Beach Overview

Location 11kms SE of Sydney. 500m S of Bondi Beach
Nearest Town: 500m (Bondi Beach)
Tasman Sea Beach Facilities Activities Rating Accommodation
Beach: Sand Patrolled: Yes Sunbathing: 91% Hotel/Resort: No
Length: 100m Toilets: Yes Swimming: 76% Caravan Park: No
Faces: South East Showers: Yes Surfing: 81% Beach Food: Yes
Top: Cliffs Picnic Area: Yes Kitesurf: No Café/Kiosk: Yes
Bottom: Cliffs Tidal Pool: No Fishing: 82% Restaurants: No
Surrounds: Park Pier: No Shore Dive: No Risk Level: 2 - Care Required
Reef: Yes Other: Snorkelling: No Dumping Waves: Yes
Ocean Swell: Yes Access: 1 - Easy Spear Fishing: No Frequent Rips: Yes
Other: Car Park: Yes Walks: 89% Shark Attacks: No Report Found
Transport: Bus Other: Other: Dumping waves, rocks
Excellent beach, popular with sunbathers. Beach is small and when flags are up they can cover the whole beach, which turns break into a bodyboard only beach.


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Beach Safety

Patrolled

Tamarama is Patrolled 7 Days a week from Oct to April. Flags often cover most of the beach, meaning no hard boards allowed during patrol hours.
Swimming is also popular at Tama, usually sunbathers and walkers cooling off. The beach is patrolled during peak times, but care should always be taken here. Due to the beaches small size rips are very common and hard to avoid. This beach is considered by lifesavers to be on of the most dangerous in Sydney.




Surfing

Tamarama Surf Breaks

Tamarama Reef Break works best in SE swells, off shore winds are from the W. Nice when its working and reef break joins with the rippy beach break. Tends to be better in colder months, which is for the best as Tama is a very small beach and board riders are not permitted on most of the break when the flags are up (depending where actual flags are put).
Left hand break, can handle medium to big swells.
Tamarama Surf




Sculpture by the Sea

Sculpture by the Sea

Sculpture by the Sea is an interesting artistic event involving outdoor sculptures placed along the Bondi Coastal walk from South Bondi to Tamarama. Many of the sculptures make use of the surrounding coastal environment. Sculpture by the Sea runs over a fortnight each November. Click here to visit site.

History

History

Amusement Park - In the 1890's an elaborate aquarium with a roller-coaster that ran over the water was the main attraction at the beach. It burnt down and was replaced by a new place called 'Wonderland' that offered elephant rides on the beach. More on Wikipedia


Tamarama Aquarium

Name

Tamarama was originally called Dixon Bay, but the name was changed to Tamarama in the 1800's. Coastline maps from the 1860's list the coastal area as 'Gamma Gamma', which is an Aboriginal name, so its likely the name derived from this. 'Tama' has a few nick-names, including the tongue in cheek 'Glamarama', from 'glamourous', which pays recognition to the quality of the local sunbathers.

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