Grays Point, New South Wales

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Grays Point is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 29km south of the Sydney central business district in the Sutherland Shire. The post code is 2232, which due to the suburb's small size is shared with other suburbs in the Sutherland Shire.

Grays Point is a small suburb with picturesque views of the Port Hacking estuary. It is surrounded by the Royal National Park and the suburbs of Gymea Bay and Kirrawee. There is only one road available for vehicular access however multiple walking tracks link it with locations such as Audley in the Royal National Park.

Grays Point is largely residential, with many of its denizens relying on the rest of the Sutherland Shire (and indeed other municipalities of Sydney) for their economic well-being. A large variety of wildlife resides there, including possums, sugar gliders, Mopoke owls, deer (an introduced species), wallabies, magpies and kookaburas.

[edit] History

The origin of the Grays Point name is unclear. It has been suggested that it was either named after Samuel William Gray, who owned land on the point or John Edward Gray, who was a well-known resident ranger in the Royal National Park in the 1880s.