On the southern side of the Swansea Heads rocks is 1.5 km long Hams Beach (NSW 254). It extends southeast from the rocks to reef a sandy point formed in lee of an inshore reef called Frenchman Rock, which also forms the northern boundary of adjacent Caves Beach (Fig. 4.148). This beach was backed by degraded dunes until the 1980s when Lake Macquarie Council undertook a major landscaping and dune stabilisation program, so that now besides the revegetated dune area, good parking and access is provided towards the southern end in front of the caravan park. The beach is exposed to waves averaging 1.6 m, which maintain a single bar usually cut by three to four rips form with a permanent rip against Frenchmans Rock. read more

Beach Length: 1.5km