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Trippinjoy
澳大利亚墨尔本19 条分享
2023年12月 • 家庭
The new large deck and recent renovations at the Waratah Beach Surf Life Saving Club in Sandy Point make it not only the best view in town to show off the stunning bay, but the only place to grab a drink and some hot food in Sandy Point.
Fully run by volunteers, the club has a relaxed but very friendly atmosphere and welcomes families when it is open from Boxing Day to Easter. They offer beers on taps, lots of local wines and a selection of fish and chips. You certainly feel good knowing that the money you spend go back into the surf club.
Lots to do in the area, walk along the beach at low tide whilst looking at the stunning Wilson Prom hills whilst hardly seeing a sole, or head to one of the many national park walks from Cape Liptrap to Shallow Inlet.
Sandy Point is a nature lovers paradise and if you love a quiet coastal town even in the height of summer and enjoy seeing communities focused on generous giving back, you will love Sandy Point.
Fully run by volunteers, the club has a relaxed but very friendly atmosphere and welcomes families when it is open from Boxing Day to Easter. They offer beers on taps, lots of local wines and a selection of fish and chips. You certainly feel good knowing that the money you spend go back into the surf club.
Lots to do in the area, walk along the beach at low tide whilst looking at the stunning Wilson Prom hills whilst hardly seeing a sole, or head to one of the many national park walks from Cape Liptrap to Shallow Inlet.
Sandy Point is a nature lovers paradise and if you love a quiet coastal town even in the height of summer and enjoy seeing communities focused on generous giving back, you will love Sandy Point.
撰写日期：2024年1月6日
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Peter S
意大利罗马4,529 条分享
2023年1月
Review of Sandy Point on Waratah Bay, South Gippsland, Victoria
It took just 40 minutes to travel the 30 km from the caravan park in which we were staying in Yanakie along easy back-country roads to reach Sandy Point that morning. The township sprawls alongside Waratah Bay with seas that impact upon the spit that links Wilsons Prom to the mainland - the remains of the land bridge that stretched to Tasmania >12,000 years ago.
Behind a line of dunes that that protect the small township from the impact of the sea there are upwards of 500 people who call the place home year-round, with several thousand others who arrive for the summer months – people like us. The township is about three hours from Melbourne.
It was a year since we had last been there, and we were looking forward to late morning coffee at the mobile coffee shop that we had found earlier. It had been parked outside the General Store in front of the short commercial strip that provides services to the township. It was Australia Day and the van was not there. The man fronting the takeaway food kiosk outside the café/restaurant (which was closed) fielded our questions re-coffee and pointed us into the General Store next door.
Large and rambling inside, the general sales/cash desk was in the middle of the store and the coffee/drinks takeaway foods counter was in the far corner. We requested a couple of coffees of the friendly man behind the counter. There was no ‘small’ coffee option available - only ‘regular’ size. He took our order and requested that we pay at the cash desk and return for the coffee – so we purchased more coffee that we prefer to drink. (The next time we met this option – we shared a coffee.) The other seven adults in our group followed through, with soft drinks and fruit juice for the kids. (Outside the General Store was a casual drinks/beverage kiosk offering ‘home-made’ lemonade/juice for $1/cup. Of course, we saw that on the way out.)
A small group of us sat with our coffees/drinks at a bench across the road behind the parked vehicles on a patch of well-established grass/trees in front of the public changing rooms/toilets. A line of information boards along one side of the grass provided stories about the early/colonial history of the area, and geological/geographical/environmental changes with descriptions of the natural fauna/flora.
The public facilities are a valuable civic amenity – changing for the beach, etc. before following the signs over the dunes to the beach. The track services the surf/lifesaving club building stepped back from the beach in the dunes. It takes wheeled traffic – shallow gradient and hard surface. A sign at the entrance to the track provided information for the loan of a beach wheelchair.
Seascape and beach were spectacular and seemed to stretch to the distant horizons of sea/sky, distant hills in Wilsons Prom National Park and, in the opposite direction into South Gippsland; it was hazy and the distance features blurred into the skyline. It was also cold with a keen wind blowing in from the southern seas. Shelter was all … except that there was none (unless you had carried your own).
Where the township/beach path met the beach there was a surf/guard trailer parked between a couple of coloured flag posts, and two guards sitting 3 m above the beach watching the people in the surf. It was shallow-body-surfing water with a couple of dozen people – kids and adults - enjoying the endless waves that broke 50 m before the main sand slope – the majority in wet suits. Everyone was surfing … well, with varying degree of success. Stand around in the waves (up to a metre high) and you’ll be buffeted around. You can’t swim easily, but you can drive into the waves and come up the other side. Did I say that the water was cold?
Numbers remained much the same until late afternoon – the hottest time of the day – when the beach became a little more crowded (around the guard trailer). By then the small team of guards – those on the trailer and others practicing in and out of the surf with two light pneumatic boats with outboard motors – were moving their trailer and tractor further up the beach on a 20 minutes cycle. High tide was around 17.00 h – leaving a strip a couple of metres wide below the dune fence.
Kids being kids and adults cajoled by their kids built a large castle within a couple of concentric guard walls. By the time that we were leaving it was still intact and surrounded by light waves at the extent of their destructive reach.
Sandy Point provides different water/beach country to the small beaches in the National Park further along the same western seaboard in the National Park >25 km further south. In Sandy Point we had the security of surf guards, there was these magnificent views, and the water was robust but felt largely benign. Talking with a couple of surf guards on the beach they reported one rescue this season (so far) and none for the previous season. Complimenti to the surf team.
The beaches/seas in the national park are hazardous and to be treated with respect for the dynamic nature of the tides, currents, rips and temperatures. Keep to the creeks/rivers that edge the small, picturesque beaches – kids and adults alike – no matter your confidence and swimming capabilities.
Peter Steele
27 January 2023
It took just 40 minutes to travel the 30 km from the caravan park in which we were staying in Yanakie along easy back-country roads to reach Sandy Point that morning. The township sprawls alongside Waratah Bay with seas that impact upon the spit that links Wilsons Prom to the mainland - the remains of the land bridge that stretched to Tasmania >12,000 years ago.
Behind a line of dunes that that protect the small township from the impact of the sea there are upwards of 500 people who call the place home year-round, with several thousand others who arrive for the summer months – people like us. The township is about three hours from Melbourne.
It was a year since we had last been there, and we were looking forward to late morning coffee at the mobile coffee shop that we had found earlier. It had been parked outside the General Store in front of the short commercial strip that provides services to the township. It was Australia Day and the van was not there. The man fronting the takeaway food kiosk outside the café/restaurant (which was closed) fielded our questions re-coffee and pointed us into the General Store next door.
Large and rambling inside, the general sales/cash desk was in the middle of the store and the coffee/drinks takeaway foods counter was in the far corner. We requested a couple of coffees of the friendly man behind the counter. There was no ‘small’ coffee option available - only ‘regular’ size. He took our order and requested that we pay at the cash desk and return for the coffee – so we purchased more coffee that we prefer to drink. (The next time we met this option – we shared a coffee.) The other seven adults in our group followed through, with soft drinks and fruit juice for the kids. (Outside the General Store was a casual drinks/beverage kiosk offering ‘home-made’ lemonade/juice for $1/cup. Of course, we saw that on the way out.)
A small group of us sat with our coffees/drinks at a bench across the road behind the parked vehicles on a patch of well-established grass/trees in front of the public changing rooms/toilets. A line of information boards along one side of the grass provided stories about the early/colonial history of the area, and geological/geographical/environmental changes with descriptions of the natural fauna/flora.
The public facilities are a valuable civic amenity – changing for the beach, etc. before following the signs over the dunes to the beach. The track services the surf/lifesaving club building stepped back from the beach in the dunes. It takes wheeled traffic – shallow gradient and hard surface. A sign at the entrance to the track provided information for the loan of a beach wheelchair.
Seascape and beach were spectacular and seemed to stretch to the distant horizons of sea/sky, distant hills in Wilsons Prom National Park and, in the opposite direction into South Gippsland; it was hazy and the distance features blurred into the skyline. It was also cold with a keen wind blowing in from the southern seas. Shelter was all … except that there was none (unless you had carried your own).
Where the township/beach path met the beach there was a surf/guard trailer parked between a couple of coloured flag posts, and two guards sitting 3 m above the beach watching the people in the surf. It was shallow-body-surfing water with a couple of dozen people – kids and adults - enjoying the endless waves that broke 50 m before the main sand slope – the majority in wet suits. Everyone was surfing … well, with varying degree of success. Stand around in the waves (up to a metre high) and you’ll be buffeted around. You can’t swim easily, but you can drive into the waves and come up the other side. Did I say that the water was cold?
Numbers remained much the same until late afternoon – the hottest time of the day – when the beach became a little more crowded (around the guard trailer). By then the small team of guards – those on the trailer and others practicing in and out of the surf with two light pneumatic boats with outboard motors – were moving their trailer and tractor further up the beach on a 20 minutes cycle. High tide was around 17.00 h – leaving a strip a couple of metres wide below the dune fence.
Kids being kids and adults cajoled by their kids built a large castle within a couple of concentric guard walls. By the time that we were leaving it was still intact and surrounded by light waves at the extent of their destructive reach.
Sandy Point provides different water/beach country to the small beaches in the National Park further along the same western seaboard in the National Park >25 km further south. In Sandy Point we had the security of surf guards, there was these magnificent views, and the water was robust but felt largely benign. Talking with a couple of surf guards on the beach they reported one rescue this season (so far) and none for the previous season. Complimenti to the surf team.
The beaches/seas in the national park are hazardous and to be treated with respect for the dynamic nature of the tides, currents, rips and temperatures. Keep to the creeks/rivers that edge the small, picturesque beaches – kids and adults alike – no matter your confidence and swimming capabilities.
Peter Steele
27 January 2023
撰写日期：2023年1月31日
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Shane A
6 条分享
2021年1月 • 家庭
Sandy point is a very nice beach for families, fun for surfing on the bigger days. Have visited many times as we live nearby. An area for improvement would be to have an actual point on the beach which would benefit surfers by improving the quality of the waves or change the name to Sandy bay/ sandy beach to minimise confusion/dissapointment to visitors.
撰写日期：2021年2月18日
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Mmmidas
42 条分享
2019年12月 • 家庭
Here’s a tip.... order a pizza or fish and chips from the cafe in Sandy Point and take your meal to the surf life saving club (they don’t mind) sit enjoy dinner with a cold beer and the most magnificent views of the coastline , surf and Wilson’s Prom , just breathtaking oh and by the way if you have to wait for your meal at the cafe the buzzer they give you will buzz in the lifesaving club!!!
撰写日期：2019年12月30日
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Karen O
澳大利亚季隆514 条分享
2019年4月 • 家庭
We spent an afternoon here enjoying the beach. The waves were a good size for the kids and the beach went on for miles if you wanted to take a walk. It really was a lovely and relaxing beach
撰写日期：2019年4月22日
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Tony M
英国East Molesey368 条分享
2018年3月 • 夫妻情侣
the soft sand just spreads out for miles in front of you - Enjoyed our walk - watched the sail surf boards - Lovely
撰写日期：2018年3月23日
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EndlessTravels
澳大利亚大墨尔本地区38,667 条分享
2017年11月
get ready to be confused. It’s called waratah bay but its in sandy point. good spot that has two food shops over the road from car parking. offers grear toilets.
撰写日期：2017年11月23日
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