Bilinga

Beach

Bilinga Surf Life Saving Club (1597B) was established in 1922. The club house occupies a beachfront block, with houses to either side and a seawall in front. When the beach is nourished with sand every few years, the width of the beach increases considerably. Read more

Bilinga Surf Life Saving Club (1597B) was established in 1922. The club house occupies a beachfront block, with houses to either side and a seawall in front. When the beach is nourished with sand every few years, the width of the beach increases considerably.

Swimming

Swimming conditions vary along the beach. Conditions are most hazardous at the Flat Rock and Tugun end owing to the prevalence of rip channels across the inner bar, together with the strong permanent rip against Elephant Rock and smaller rips that can form either side of Flat Rock. The patrolled area at the Tugun Surf Club is the best place to swim. At Bilinga and North Kirra the rips are less frequent, but a deep trough usually parallels the beach. Kirra Beach is the safest, with the lowest waves and usually no rips close to shore. However there is still a deep trough off the beach, with a current often sweeping north past the groyne.

Surfing

There are beach breaks along most of the beach, which to the south are better on the outer bar. The prime surfing spot is Kirra Point, famous for its long right-handers breaking over a sand bar produced in part by the Greenmount groyne.

Fishing

There is good beach fishing right along the beach, into the rip holes along the northern end and straight into the longshore trough toward the south. In addition you can fish off the Kirra and Greenmount groynes and, when the beach is eroded, straight off the Kirra seawall.

General

This is a long beach that changes its character from north to south. It has also suffered from beach erosion, resulting in the construction of seawalls and groynes and requiring massive beach nourishment every few years.