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Field notes

What to do once you’re on the sand: whales, surf, snorkelling and the quiet beaches.

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None are published yet. These are the first ones we’re writing; each will say where, when and how, with sources, and nothing we haven’t checked.

Coming first

Humpback whale breaching off the Sydney coast

The headlands where you'll see humpbacks without paying for a boat

Whale watching · May–Nov · not published yet

Surfer riding a wave at Bronte

Learning to surf in Sydney: which beach, which board, which month

Surf · not published yet

Swimmer on the rocks at Clovelly

Clovelly and Gordons Bay: Sydney's calmest water for a first snorkel

Snorkel · not published yet

Surfer at Cronulla at sunset

Five beaches south of the city most visitors never reach

Off the radar · not published yet

Photos: Eclipse Chasers / Pexels · Matt Hardy / Pexels · Wondearthful / Pexels · Masood Bakhtyar / Pexels.

Meanwhile, the beaches

Every beach compared Clovelly Gordons Bay Shelly Beach Cronulla

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