Woolooware Bay

This article is about the bay. For the suburb of Woolooware, see Woolooware, New South Wales.

Woolooware Bay
The Georges River, looking east. The Woolooware Bay is pictured as the most easterly bay, to the right and back of the picture, southeast of the Captain Cook Bridge, the most easterly river crossing.
Woolooware Bay
Location of Woolooware Bay in New South Wales
LocationSouthern Sydney, New South Wales
Coordinates34°01′55″S 151°09′04″E / 34.03194°S 151.15111°E / -34.03194; 151.15111[1]
TypeBay
Georges River
6 km2 (2.3 sq mi)
Basin countriesAustralia
Managing agency
Sutherland Shire Council
Frozennever
SettlementsCaringbah, Kurnell, Taren Point, Woolooware

The Woolooware Bay is a bay on the lower estuarine Georges River in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Woolooware Bay was also home to local icon "Tattoo", a female Russian Blue ship's cat who lived for 10 years aboard a moored yacht (Simba) with her owner, author Rachel Alexandra.[2] Tattoo came to prominence through a children's book released in April 2024. Tattoo died on 22 November 2025, age 14 and was buried above the sands that over look the entrance of Woolooware Bay.

The bay was the site of the last oyster farming on Georges River. The last oyster farming site there was closed in 2023.[3][4]

Location and features

The bay is located near where the Georges River empties into Botany Bay, southeast of the Captain Cook Bridge. The bay's catchment area is bound by Botany Bay to the north, Bate Bay sub-catchment to the east, Gwawley Bay sub-catchment to the west and Port Hacking sub-catchment to the south.[5] The bay is surrounded by the suburbs of Kurnell to the east, Woolooware[6] to the south, and Taren Point and Caringbah to the west of the bay's shore.[7] Mangrove swamps were traditionally located around the bay area. Some were reclaimed to create parks and playing fields including Endeavour Field, Woolooware Golf Course and Cronulla Golf Course.

References

  1. ^ "Woolooware Bay (NSW)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  2. ^ Alexandra, Rachel (2024). Tattoo's Tale: All in a Day in Woolooware bay. Canary Wharf: Austin Macauley Publishers. ISBN 978-1-52-897136-2.
  3. ^ "'Disgraceful example of government bureaucracy': Last oyster farmer forced out". St George and Sutherland Shire Leader. 13 March 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  4. ^ APP Corporation Pty Limited (July 2022). Demolition and Replacement of Structures at the Oyster Farm, Woolooware Bay. Review of Environmental Factors (PDF).
  5. ^ "Draft Woolooware Bay Catchment Flood Study" (PDF). Council & The Shire: Public Consultations (PDF). Sutherland Shire Council. April 2003. p. ii. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  6. ^ "Suburb names in the Sutherland Shire" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  7. ^ Pollon, Frances, ed. (1990). The Book of Sydney Suburbs. Australia: Angus & Robertson. p. 118. ISBN 0-207-14495-8.


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