Nutgrove Beach, Sandy beach in Sandy Bay, Tasmania

Nutgrove Beach is a sandy stretch in Sandy Bay spanning about 700 meters of pale sand facing north. The shore offers views across the Derwent River toward Mount Wellington and the Tasman Bridge in the distance.

The area was home to the Mouheneener people who lived there for thousands of years before British colonization arrived. An adjacent settlement existed on Long Beach serving as a permanent dwelling place for this original population.

Nutgrove Beach takes its name from Nutgrove House, an 1880s homestead built by farmer John T. Read on the Kinvarra Estate in Plenty. Read named the house after a small grove of walnut trees on the land, and the beach later inherited the name. Nutgrove House still stands, and Lower Sandy Bay held many apple, pear and nut orchards in the 19th century.

The beach has restroom facilities and permits dogs, making it convenient for different types of visitors. Next to it sits the Sandy Bay Sailing Club where children take lessons in small sailboats.

The beach's shallows shelter two notable species: the native smooth spotted shore crab (Paragrapsus laevis) and the critically endangered spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus), a bottom-dwelling fish that walks on modified fins. The Derwent estuary was once a calving ground of the southern right whale, though sightings there are now very rare.