Malabar Beach, Sydney - Aust.

Malabar was named after a ship called the MV Malabar, a Burns Philp Company passenger and cargo steamer that was shipwrecked in thick fog on rocks
at Miranda Point on the northern headland of Long Bay 2 April 1931. The ship itself was named after Malabar, a region in the Indian state of Kerala famous for its history as a major spice trade centre. Prior to the wreck, the suburb was known as either Brand or Long Bay. Long Bay is reputed to have been the local Indigenous community’s principal camping/healing place between Sydney and Botany Bay. Malabar Headland is the site of a number of Aboriginal engravings. Historian Obed West claimed in 1882 that Aboriginal people referred to Long Bay as ‘Boora’ and that a rock overhang on the south side of Long Bay had been used as a shelter by Aboriginals suffering from a smallpox epidemic in the late 1700s
Beach
Malabar Beach (NSW 328) is located in Long Bay, a 1.3 km deep southeast-facing bay that narrows from 800 m wide at its entrance between Boota Point and Tupia Head, to the curving 200 m long beach at its base. Sandstone rocks, platforms and cliffs extend along either side of the bay, with the Malabar Sewerage Treatment Works located on the northern side, and the suburb of Malabar on the southern side. The beach receives lowered waves averaging less than 1 m, which surge up a steep reflective beach face, with deeper water off the beach (Fig. 4.248). The beach is about 50 m wide and backed by a grassy reserve, with a car park and street parking along the southern side. The beach was off limits to swimmers between 1949 and 2000, when sewer pollution from the nearby Malabar sewer outfall caused its closure. A surf club patrolled the beach between 1924 and 1949 and today is replaced by a lifeguard tower. A rock platforms extends southeast of the beach, with a boat ramp is located 150 m southeast of the beach and a rock pool 450 m to the southeast, with a car park above the pool. The Randwick golf course occupies the remainder of Tupia Head.
Swimming
A usually quiet beach, but with deep water just offshore.
Surfing
There is a left reef break on the northern rocks during larger southeast swell.
Fishing
There are extensive, usually sheltered spots for rock fishing, together with a boat ramp.
Parking
Type: Formal parking area
Surface: Sealed
Spaces: 30

[@zacktoby]

Thanks I also fished and surfed there during 1960s. I did not know about the swimming ban. A lot of the pollution also came from grease trucks dumping fat in the drains which ended up floating on the beach. This is the beast video I have see of Yellow Rock which was an infamous rock fishing spot. We used to get huge sting-rays feeding on the sea urchins near the shallow part of the beach. These used to swim around from Botany Bay and would swim right under me sitting on my surf board.

[@WayneStirling]

This was my home when I was a youngster. Love the place. A lot cleaner now than it used to be.

[@lozztuff6055]

Me too. 1960 to early 80's. Malabar Public Then Mato High. Across ANZAC Rifle Range to surf Maroubra for obvious reasons :)

[@adamfilmmaker]

well done. brilliant drone work. excellent mapping of Malabar region. Bravo!

[@sydneyserbthetraveller1150]

Can't beleive anyone can dislike a video like this. 😱

[@PriyankaBM134]

A guy got killed in feb at buchan point

[@bonnypop5764]

I wuv the xx

[@robotfreshpies]

Don't let the water colour fool you. It's still basically a giant toilet

[@zacktoby]

...and if your can afford the price of real estate, you can say you are part of the effluent society.