Shelly Beach to South Cronulla Esplanade

Shelly Beach to South Cronulla Esplanade

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Posted 2015-01-13 by Gary Brownfollow
Treat yourself to some summer fun and go for a walk, swim, surf, body board, scuba dive, snorkel and fish.






Why don't you treat yourself to some summer fun and go for a walk, swim, surf, body board, scuba dive, snorkel and fish your way along the stretch of coastline from Shelly Beach to South Cronulla? The Esplanade at Cronulla stretches all the way from Salmon Haul Bay in the south to Wanda Beach in the north. It is quite an easy walk to do and at what I would class as a stroll. It would take you about 40 minutes each way.






Quite often I will go with my wife Leanne down to the ocean rock pool at the bottom of Shelly Beach Park for a few hours to have a swim, sit under the umbrella and read, have another couple of swims, sit and watch the passing parade and then go for a walk along the Esplanade at Cronulla. One of my favourite sections is the one from Shelly Beach to the shops at Cronulla Mall. This section would take about 15 minutes each way.


At Shelly Beach the parking can be a bit of a nightmare during the summer months, but you will be able to find plenty of parking in the nearby streets. Some of which lead down to the Esplanade.

The ocean pool at Shelly is a tidal pool and it has a small beach area, concrete stairs and grassed area for you to be able to set up while you go for a swim. The pool itself has a concrete wall on three sides with a chained handrail on the top and at its deepest part would be around 1.8 metres. The bottom of the pool is a combination of sand, shell and some rock, but this will vary from season to season and the condition of the seas. This is a great pool to bring the family.




Nearby is a park with gas BBQs, children's playground, toilets, change room, covered in seating and a couple of outdoor freshwater showers. If you are after a quick bite to eat or that coffee you missed out on you could take a short walk (about five minutes) up the top of the park and go to either the Shelly Park Shop or the Nuns Pool.




As you walk north from Shelly Beach, you will go past Shark Island where they hold the Shark Island Body Board Challenge every year around October, Cronulla Point (where I snapped one of my surfboards in half), and the South Cronulla Beach Surf Life Saving Club, Zimzala's, Barefoot on the Beach Cafe and if you take the higher footpath you will come to Club Cronulla.

Not only will you find a patrolled (check patrolling times) sandy beach at South Cronulla, you have a grassed area, toilets, change rooms, outdoor shower, tree lined park, a children's playground and you also have a number of eat-in and take-away shops. Even though I do catch my own seafood, one of my favourite fish and chips shops is South Beach Seafoods, where you can get one of the best seafood lunches in Cronulla. They have dine-in or take-way meals.




Places to Dine at or Have a Coffee

Click on the following links to find out more:

#104408621017605699968 /about?gl=au&hl=en">1. Shelly Park Shop
2. The Nuns Pool. [LINK=http://www.zimzalacronulla.com.au/]
3. Zimzala's[/LINK]


4. Barefoot on the Beach Cafe


5. South Beach Seafood's
6. The Old Library Restuarant and Bar
7. Fratelli Del Mare
8. Club Cronulla

Things to See and Do

Click on the following links to find out more:

1. South Cronulla Surf Life Saving club
2. Shark-Island-Challenge
Shark Island Challenge You Tube courtesy of Shark Island Challenge Company
3. Surfing
4. Stand up Paddle Boarding.


5. Lawn Bowls
6. Cronulla Plaza Shopping
7. Scuba Diving


So the next time you are looking for somewhere to go where you can treat yourself out for a morning or for a day, why don't you either get in your car or take public transport to this section of the Esplanade at Cronulla and have some summer fun?





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