Nodes em Malabar

Collection of easy climbs in a beautiful location. Some shade until early arvo. Climbs all stay pretty dry except in large swell.

Climbs described as you get to them from the beach following the shoreline.

Just below the car park – walk down the boat ramp and turn right (towards the beach) or walk in from the beach. This sector is a bit wet at peak tide.

Knob to top.

Undercling start

Left of wet streak. Friction undercling start

Right of wet streak. Hop up to start edge under white patch and topout.

Stand start at flakes.

Standstart

These climbs are just left (beachside) of the boat ramp. Climbable only at low tide – at high tide the boulder are half underwater!

Accessible at low tide only. Stand start from block

Only at low tide. Stand start at layback and scoop, delicate move up and left and topout. Careful of sandstone choss at the very top, can bail by traversing left 1 meter.

Pre-slabs are 150 meters towards the ocean form the boat ramp. At high tide you may have scramble to the high track and scramble back down. Find the 90 degree block, the pre-slabs and the overhang are just in front of it.

Two solid hand jams in the overhanging crack then fight your way past the Westringia. Absolutely no slab engagement but you might want to tape up for this shredder.

Where the legs ends, up the obvious crack. No stars!

Follow the shallow weakness trending rightwards. Arete/crack on the right it right out! Double top-out for good measure.

Trad-like corner

The following climbs are on the 90 degree block. The vertical flakes look very delicate but are surprisingly strong. Still, best to avoid the thinnest flakes or those that are not beaten by the sun.

Straight up the agonisingly thin facets on the west side of '90-degree block'. The entire difficult of the climb lies in not breaking any facets.

The seaside overhung arete. Hard sit start on vertical holds, straight up the arete.

Half a meter right of normal. Stand start on vertical holds, straight up.

Start inside the scoop/cave, swing out to jugs and then up

Start as for orthogonal, but then keep on traversing right to easier topout.

Traverse counterclockwise the overhanging half of the 90 degree block. The good bit starts seaside, 1 meter left off normal.

Traverse overhang from right to left along the lip. Could add a top out at the end at V3ish.

Around the corner, 20 m form the 90 degree block.

Red thin slab left of sandy white block. 5 meters left of red slab.

Start on the shallow hole. Straight up to sloper rail. Jump off or traverse out left or right.

Just left of the seeping streak. Touch greens at top. Climb down or jump.

If not wet, provides easy descent for RS and GS.

just right of seeping streak. Start on hole on right and move to hole on left (reachy) and up.

50 meters towards the ocean again. Fun powerful moves. Some of the sitstart rail may still crumble off, but most of it should be good now.

Sitstart up zigzag streak to sloper rail

Straight up. Finish on high jug.

Right tending iron band. Standstart. No stars

Left corner sitstart.

sitstart left of hole. Straight up.

Sitstart under big hole. Top just left of hole w knee bar

sitstart little flake. Tad left and up

Right corner. Sitstart

Traverse from Frigg to Vicky.

Traverse from Vicky to Frigg

At the south side of the bay where the Malabar rock pool is there are a few good climbs.

Sit start. Take care with the mantle and the bench.

Sit start. Up past the towel hooks.

Stand start about 4m left of Off The Hook, about 1m left of the white rock, where OW was carved in the rock. Up to the hole in the black rock and topout.

The wall near the pool shower is great for kids to try some bouldering.

Overhang start, climb over edge to top. 100m from boat ramp