Weather Forecast
11.20°C
Current Temperature
13.00km/h
Wind speed
21.65°C
Water Temperature
0.83m
Swell
0.17m
Tide
8/11
UV
Park Beach (NSW 109) is the main beach for Coffs Harbour a major city of over 60 000. The beach is backed by a fenced foredune and a road leading to the town centre. There is extensive parking and numerous facilities located behind the low dunes including a large caravan park, hotel and the Coffs Harbour SLSC (Fig. 4.54). A shady picnic area lies between the southern car park and Coffs Harbour creek. Responding to the early popularity of the beach the surf club was formed in 1923 an outgrowth of the Coffs Harbour Surf Bathing Club, which was located at Jetty (or Harbour) Beach just to the south. The beach itself extends south from Macauleys Head for 1.5 km to the cuspate foreland in lee of Little Muttonbird Island and the usually open Coffs Harbour Creek (Fig. 4.55). It receives slight protection from southeast waves but is open to the east and northeast, with waves averaging 1.4 m and maintaining up to ten rips along the beach, with a permanent rip against the headland. The southern patrolled end is usually more protected, but during summer northeast conditions strong rips can develop next to the foreland. This popular but potentially hazardous beach records an average of 26 rescues a year. Coffs Harbour Creek enters the sea immediately south of the cuspate foreland in lee of Muttonbird Islet and together with the foreland forms the northern boundary of the southern section of Park Beach (NSW 110) a curving 600 m long beach. The southern boundary is the northern Coffs Harbour breakwater, which extends out 600 m to Muttonbird Island an 8 ha nature reserve. The breakwater was constructed in 1892 and truncates the original beach, which used to continue southward into what is now Coffs Harbour. This beach is protected by the island and breakwater, which was extended to the island in 1924, resulting in waves averaging less than a metre, which maintain an attached bar. Access to the beach is either by walking down from Park Beach or from the southern car parking area around the port and sailing club.
Beach Length: 1.5km
General Hazard Rating: 5/10

Patrolled Beach Flag Patrols

Sun
06 Oct
Mon
30 Sep
Tue
01 Oct
Wed
02 Oct
Thu
03 Oct
Fri
04 Oct
Sat
05 Oct
Coffs Harbour SLSC
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09:00 -15:00
09:00 -15:00
Coffs Harbour City Council Lifeguard Service
09:00 -16:00
09:00 -16:00
09:00 -16:00
09:00 -16:00
09:00 -16:00
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Information

Formal parking area
Formal parking area
Toilets Block M/F
Public phone
Kiosk
Park
Drinking water
Showers
Change Rooms
Bus

Regulations

Hazards

Topographic rips

Weather

SLSA provides this information as a guide only. Surf conditions are variable and therefore this information should not be relied upon as a substitute for observation of local conditions and an understanding of your abilities in the surf. SLSA reminds you to always swim between the red and yellow flags and never swim at unpatrolled beaches. SLSA takes all care and responsibility for any translation but it cannot guarantee that all translations will be accurate.