The sandbank known as Merimbula Bar at the north end of Merimbula Main Beach is one of the South Coast's true postcard waves. A lovely left-hander that enjoys almost total protection from the northeast sea breeze thanks to a bulky northern headland, "the bar" is at its best on a south swell. The beach going south towards Pambula does see the odd wave breaking onto the variable sandbanks, but really this is just sunning and strolling territory.