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
Location	Southern Sydney, New South Wales
Coordinates	34°01′55″S151°09′04″E / 34.03194°S 151.15111°E / -34.03194; 151.15111 [1]
Type	Bay
Primary outflows	Georges River
Catchment area	6 km2 (2.3 sq mi)
Basin  countries	Australia
Managing agency	Sutherland Shire Council
Frozen	never
Settlements	Caringbah, 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 is also home to local icon "Tattoo" a real life Russian Blue female cat who lives aboard a moored yacht with her owner, author R.Alexandra. Tattoo is rare in that she is one of very few cats who can claim to be a "Ship's Cat"

Ship's Cat historically:

• Revered in ancient Egypt as 'protectors of grain', these cat's kept bilge rat's away from the store as it was being delivered on river barges along The Nile.
• During the 2 World Wars of the early 1900s cats were common place onboard Navy ship's, keeping sailor's company and to remind them of home.

Since the late 1970s however, cats have been banned from living aboard navy ship's as when in dock, the cats would head to shore and attack the native bird life.

In modern-day society, cats are permitted to live on boats that are privately owned only- making 'Tattoo' one very rare and real "Ship's Cat" .

The bay was the site of the last oyster farming on Georges River. The last oyster farming site there was closed in 2023. ^{[2] [3]}

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. ^[4] The bay is surrounded by the suburbs of Kurnell to the east, Woolooware ^[5] to the south, and Taren Point and Caringbah to the west of the bay's shore. ^[6] Mangrove swamps were traditionally located around the bay area. Some were reclaimed to create parks and playing fields including Endeavour Field (Toyota Park), Woolooware Golf Course and Cronulla Golf Course.

References

• New South Wales portal

1. "Woolooware Bay (NSW)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
2. "'Disgraceful example of government bureaucracy': Last oyster farmer forced out". St George and Sutherland Shire Leader . 13 March 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
3. APP Corporation Pty Limited (July 2022). Demolition and Replacement of Structures at the Oyster Farm, Woolooware Bay. Review of Environmental Factors (PDF).
4. "Draft Woolooware Bay Catchment Flood Study" (PDF). Council & The Shire: Public Consultations (PDF). Sutherland Shire Council. April 2003. p. ii. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
5. "Suburb names in the Sutherland Shire" (PDF).
6. Pollon, Frances, ed. (1990). The Book of Sydney Suburbs. Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers. p. 118. ISBN   0-207-14495-8.

External links

• "Draft Woolooware Bay Catchment Flood Study" (PDF). Council & The Shire: Public Consultations (PDF). Sutherland Shire Council. April 2003.
• "Draft Woolooware Bay Catchment Flood Study – Figures" (PDF). Council & The Shire: Public Consultations (PDF). Sutherland Shire Council. April 2003.