Long Beach, Beach in Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania

Long Beach is an east-facing sandy beach on the River Derwent in Sandy Bay, Hobart, looking across the water to the City of Clarence and Blinking Billy Point. It neighbours Nutgrove Beach and sits beside the Long Beach Reserve Playground, the Sandy Bay Sailing Club and the Lower Sandy Bay shops. A sea pontoon serves swimmers, and bathroom facilities stand at the beach.

The Mouheneener people, a sub-group of the Nuennone or South-East tribe, occupied this land for possibly as long as 35,000 years before British colonisation and held a permanent settlement at the beach called kreewer. From 1893 trams ran along Sandy Bay Road, and a dedicated Long Beach terminus of the Hobart Municipal Tramway opened in October 1913 at the end of Beach Road, with trams arriving hourly until the Sandy Bay Line closed in 1952.

Since 2013, Long Beach has hosted the Nude Solstice Swim during the Dark Mofo festival, held at the winter solstice in June. In 2022, more than 2,000 participants took part. The beach has also held an evening Twilight Market twice monthly since 2018.

Long Beach is about an hour's walk from Hobart City Centre, or a short metro bus ride along Sandy Bay Road. Dedicated parking sits directly off Sandy Bay Road and Beach Road. A sea pontoon serves swimmers, and bathroom facilities are on site. The beach faces east across the River Derwent, so southerly winds and swell-driven currents affect the shore.

The volcanic rocks visible on the banks of Long Beach and neighbouring Blinking Billy Point are about 26 million years old, and Charles Darwin visited the site in 1836. The same shore also sees Australian fur seals hauled out at times, and plankton sometimes makes the water glow after dark.