Spoon Bay (NSW 284) is located on the southern side of 50 m high Wamberal Point and lies entirely within Wamberal Lagoon Nature Reserve, with densely vegetated dunes and rocks backing the beach, with the lagoon behind. It is an irregular beach, running roughly south-southeast for 1 km from the point to the rocks that form the boundary with adjacent Wamberal Beach. The beach can only be accessed on foot from a car park at the end of Spoon Bay Road in the north, or by walking up the beach from Wamberal in the south. It is bordered and fronted by continuous rocky reefs, with waves breaking on the reefs to partially reform in a narrow channel and break as lower waves at the shore, producing a usually steep reflective beach (Fig. 4.169). However while waves are usually low a three permanent rips drains the gutters between the beach and rocks and have caused fatalities. read more

Beach Length: 1.07km