Long Bay Village Market

Long Bay Village Market runs once a month, on the fourth Sunday, spreading across the village piazza and out onto the grass beside the arch sculpture. It is a community market rather than a large commercial one: handmade crafts and homewares, plants, fresh baking and seasonal produce, with a rotating set of local sellers who tend to know their regulars by name.

For families the setting does much of the work. There is room for children to move about rather than be steered through narrow aisles, entry costs nothing, and stallholders often lay on something for younger visitors. The real advantage is what sits at the end of the road — Long Bay beach and the regional park are a short walk away, so many families make the market the first half of the outing and the sand the second. Parking spreads across the surrounding streets and green space, and the whole thing packs down by early afternoon.