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Dolans Bay

The Dolans Bay is a cove on the Burraneer Bay adjacent to the lower estuarine Hacking River of Port Hacking in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Dolans Bay
Dolans Bay · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Dolans Bay is a cove on the Burraneer Bay adjacent to the lower estuarine Hacking River of Port Hacking in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dolans Bay

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Cronulla Beach

    Cronulla Beach, is a patrolled beach on Bate Bay in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. The Cronulla Pavilion and the Cronulla Lifesaving Club are two prominent buildings located close to the sand.

    2.2 km · beach in Sydney, NSW · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shelly Beach

    Shelly Beach is a beach on Bate Bay in Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Shelly Park sits behind the beach.

    2 km · beach in Cronulla, NSW · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Endeavour Field

    Endeavour Field is a stadium located in Woolooware, a suburb in the Sutherland Shire of Southern Sydney. It is primarily used for rugby league as the home ground of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League.

    3 km · Rugby league stadium in Woolooware, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Elouera Beach

    Elouera Beach or Elouera is a patrolled beach on Bate Bay, in Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Wall is the local name given to the area between North Cronulla Beach and Elouera.

    3.2 km · Australian beach · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Horderns Beach

    Horderns Beach is located in Bundeena, New South Wales. Beach is 580 meters long.

    2.2 km · beach in Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cronulla Fisheries Centre

    The Cronulla Fisheries Centre or Cronulla Fisheries Research Centre is a heritage-listed former fisheries research centre and now public reserve and marine rescue base located at the Southern end of Nicholson Parade, Cronulla, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney Australia. It was built from 1904.

    1.6 km · "Heritage place or item located at 202 Nicholson Parade Cronulla New South Wales, Australia" · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cronulla Post Office

    Cronulla Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 41 Cronulla Street, Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Edwin Hubert Henderson of the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways and built in 1924.

    2.1 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Cronulla NSW · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Dolans Bay

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 14 km · Newcastle (NTL), 155 km
Stations
Caringbah railway station, 2.9 km · Cronulla railway station, 1.9 km · Woolooware railway station, 2.1 km
  • Williamtown → Dolans Bay
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · A$24–32
  • Gold Coast → Dolans Bay
    709 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · A$240–350
  • Melbourne → Dolans Bay
    694 km · quickest by air, 5h 19m · A$240–350
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dolans Bay

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dolans Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are hourly ferries from Bundeena, across Port Hacking bay.
  • Get inIt is a pleasant and largely off-road cycle from Botany Bay to the northern Cronulla beaches.
  • Go nextA ferry leaves from Cronulla every hour to Bundeena on the edge of Royal National Park.
  • Go nextCatch the ferry from the ferry wharf on the Gunnamatta Bay side of the railway behind the station.

From Wikivoyage: Sydney/Cronulla, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,003 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,080 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,279 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,858 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,275 km

If you know how people move in Dolans Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Dolans Bay

Dolans Bay is 23 km from Sydney, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cronullasuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.3 km
  • Caringbahsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km
  • Bundeenalocality in New South Wales, Australia3.1 km
  • Lilli Pillisuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1.6 km
  • Wooloowaresuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1 km
  • Caringbah Southsuburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2.4 km