Lameroo Beach
Lameroo Beach is nestled against the cliffs along the Esplanade near Government House in Darwin's CBD. Darwin city's only beach, it has long been a popular camping, fishing and swimming spot for the Larrakia Aborigines and early residents of Darwin and was the location of the once popular all-season swimming baths. The baths were built to keep out crocodiles, but were less effective at excluding box jellyfish, which caused a number of deaths to bathers. The baths fell into disrepair during the 1950s.
During the 1970s Lameroo Beach was home to a large hippie commune until Cyclone Tracy destroyed the site in 1974. A graded concrete walkway leads down through tropical rain forest to the beach and the ruins of the seawater baths, where the trees overhang much of the straight, low energy, 100 m long, sand and gravel beach. It faces southwest into the harbour, with rocky tidal flats exposed at low tide.
Access to Lameroo Beach and the surrounding foreshore is from the southern end of Kitchener Drive or Jervois Road. At the east end of The Esplanade just beyond the Herbert Street intersection is a pathway that leads down to the water's edge. It passes through a particular pretty patch of rainforest.