Surfing South of Newcastle

If you go surfing south of Newcastle you will get beach after beach. The first beach south of Newcastle is Dudley. It is a beach break and works best on a westerly wind. Then Redhead which is offshore in a north-wester and can be a bit protected in the summertime from the north-easters which sort of blow along the beach and just a little offshore. Little Beach sometimes gets a nice sandbank in the corner with some decent lefts peeling off it. On the Big Beach at Redhead you will get peaks all the way down the beach , usually in front of the creeks that flow onto the beach. Redhead stretches all the way to Blacksmiths along what is called Nine Mile Beach. I do not know if it is really nine miles, but I doubt it. If you have a four wheel drive then you could find waves any where along the stretch of beach all to yourself. Places to look are Belmont South and just off Belmont North.

At Blacksmiths Beach the southerly is offshore and if there is any south in the wind you should be able to get a wave at Blacksmiths if there is any swell. The breakwater breaks only on big southerly swells and is best at low tide. If you are not scared of sharks then go out into the channel of the entrance to Lake Macquarie. But watch out for the tides and the currents out there. It can get hollow but can also get horrendously crowded even with kooks with a death wish. Over the other side of the Channel is Hams Beach which works best on a westerly or a north westerly. Frenchmans has a reef out the back with left handers coming in usually with my old mates on them on their malibus. Hams has a few peaks and shifting sand bars that can produce some great waves both lefts and rights. There is a reef right out in front of the car park at Hams Beach that sometimes throws up some good waves, dependant on swell and wind conditions.

Sometimes Caves Beach turns it on with some magic waves but it only does it very rarely. The swell has to be right and the sandbanks have to be there and the wind has to be in the right direction. Boogie Boarders get lots of waves surfing the reefs between Caves beach and hams.

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