Watsons Bay Watch

A beach holiday in Sydney's surprising east

Words: Lee Tulloch, Photography: Tony Amos
view from our suite
breakfast in Sunset Lounge
Fish and Chippery
white flowering gum,waiting for the ferry
not your average suburb
parking lot
Camp Cove
Camp Cove
Bottle Brush, Kookaburra
Camp Cove, South Head Lighthouse
The Gap
by the ocean
hang out or go paddle boarding
view from suite
Beach Club
Beach Club
palms and Pimms
flora & fauna on tables
seafood by the sea
sunset and cocktails
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Sometimes we just take Sydney for granted. Beautiful weather. Yawn. Glorious harbour vistas. Yawn. Magnificent surf beaches. Yawn. Coffee-obsessed hipster neighbourhoods. Double yawn. But we were lured to pretty harbourside village Watsons Bay because we’d heard good things about the revamped Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel. What we found was gobsmackingly gorgeous.

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