A gem of Sydney coast, a truly remarkable suit-all-taste location for a variety of photographic activities. I have written a Maroubra Beach Photography Guide to this location. In short, this area is a photographic paradise.
Whatever your tastes are, you’ll find it here. There are cliffs, sand, rock pool, people, surfers, crashing waves, prolonged coastline. Just everything! If you are not a photographer, you can do rock fishing, sunburning or walking around. Also, people often job in this area. There is a training section for doing workouts, kids playground and a bbq area (it’s Straya, mate). Regarding the fishing, keep in mind, you need a license and a life jacket to do it legally.
Maroubra Beach Gallery
So this one is special to me. This photo is the first one that a published bought from me for a book cover. It was used for the Sarah Bailey's "Where the Dead Go" cover.
There is no need to create complex compositions when the nature is already beautiful and majestic. Enjoy!
That moment when people, seagulls, jelly fishes stood there awestruck and amazed by the unique lighting conditions. The whole morning was dull and grey and hopeless. But I felt something's going to happen. And waited and waited and waited.... And nothing happened. I've decided to leave after the final 5 minutes and then it began.
There is a beauty in the storm. With all its violence and destructive force, it's beautiful for it's power and for it's passion. Another storm, another story. I made this photo from a distance with tele lens as I wanted the sizes of the wave and the cliffs to match. The crashing waves were really huge and dramatic with lots of action happening. Also, attentive viewer could spot a low flying seagull, right above the waves.
Same day as the Winding Ways photo as you could probably guess by the light and colours. I was struck by everything happening here but managed to run an experiment. Instead of using a wide lens I took tele lens, because I wanted to show the ocean texture and I had to compose the shot this way. I believe it worked out nicely as I consider this photo as one of my best ocean sunrise images.
You'll never know which path takes you to the light unless you see it. The story of this photo goes to one of the Sydney sunrises at the famous Maroubra beach. It was more or less ordinary morning with nothing special happening and eventually I've decided to leave. Something just wouldn't let me go and I've decided to wait 5 more minutes. And it happened. I have never seen such dramatic lighting conditions revealing all the water particle texture on the sand, producing both unrest (in background) and calm water texture on the foreground. And the colours were amazing too. One of the most memorable sunrise images I took.
Getting There
If you are driving, you can park along the Marine Pde or use one of three car parks in the area. One is on the Marine Pde near the Mahon Pool, the other one is near the playground at the end of Fitzerald Ave and the third one is in between.
To get here from the CBD, please use one of the buses going back and forth. They are 397, X97, 396, X96, L94. Please use 353 to get there from Bondi Junction or Coogee Beach.
Online Camera
There are several online cameras showing current conditions. The best one, in my opinion, is this one: https://www.coastalwatch.com/surf-cams-surf-reports/nsw/maroubra.
Coogee to Bondi Walk
Maroubra Beach is not the part of the Coogee to Bondi Walk and it takes a while to walk from there to Coogee (the road isn’t impressing at all). So if you plan to walk from Coogee to Bondi, take a taxi or 353 bus first and then start the walk from Coogee.
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