A dog on the lead beside the foreshore path, with palms, lawn and the river alongside

Breakfast Point for families

Is Breakfast Point actually good for young children?

The largest single age group in Breakfast Point is 35 to 44. There are 589 children under fifteen living here, in a suburb of half a square kilometre where almost a third of the land is parks and gardens.

It reads as a retirement community from the outside. It isn’t. It’s two communities sharing very good infrastructure.

Childcare

Two centres within walking distance.

Explore & Develop Breakfast Point, in the village facing the SUPA IGA plus Liquor. Involved enough in community life that their children laid a handmade wreath at this year’s ANZAC service.

Cubby College Mortlake, a short walk over Tennyson Road.

Schools

Mortlake Public School1.1km
Concord High School2.6km
St Patrick’s Catholic Primary600m
The McDonald College2.8km

Students from Mortlake Public and Concord High speak at the community’s ANZAC service each year, which tells you something about how connected the schools are to the suburb.

The Village Green

There’s a cricket wicket in the middle of it, so residents call it the cricket pitch. In practice it’s the neighbourhood’s unofficial dog park — cavoodles, mostly, and every other kind of oodle — and it’s where people actually meet each other.

It’s also where the market sets up: 120 stalls, free entry, live music, rides, hot food. The spring one landed on Father’s Day alongside the annual Art Show. Christmas Carols happen there in early December.

If you want to know your neighbours, get a dog and walk it at eight in the morning. That’s the whole social protocol.

The Welcome to the Breakfast Point Village Green sign, picket fence and the Community Hall beyond

A small apricot cavoodle standing on the grass on his lead — Harvey.

A kookaburra perched on top of a lamp post beside the Village Green — Eight in the morning, Village Green.

The waterfront

A two-metre paved promenade runs along the Parramatta River, wide enough for a pram and a bike and a dog at the same time. People drive here just to walk it.

It’s being extended further this financial year in conjunction with Canada Bay Council.

Kayaks are a common sight at Cabarita Wharf.

Breakfast Point seen across the water from Cabarita Wharf, with kayaks stacked in the foreground

The commute

I caught the ferry from Cabarita Wharf to Barangaroo for five years. Twelve minutes’ walk from the front door, most of it along the water, and a boat every twenty minutes through the day.

I never stood in a crowd and I never sat in traffic. The walk home along the foreshore at the end of a long day is the reason I’d do it again.

The last boat out of Circular Quay leaves at 11.37pm and reaches Cabarita at 12.19am. You can have dinner in the city on a Tuesday and still come home by water.

By car it’s 25 to 30 minutes to the CBD off-peak, 35 to 50 in peak. Rhodes station is 2.1km.

Moonrise over the Parramatta River seen from the foreshore promenade at night — The walk home. March, 8.28pm.

The Country Club, for families

The lagoon pool is the family one — the 25-metre lap pool is separate, so you’re not negotiating with lap swimmers. Five tennis courts. Two gyms with no booking system, which matters when your window is forty minutes.

Bayview Bar & Dining runs a kids’ menu and opens from 9am, with a poolside kiosk on weekends from November to February. State of Origin goes up on the big screen with $5 schooners.

The Community Hall is used for yoga, dance, evening meetings and art displays, and residents can hire it for private functions. Beside it, the pavilion has six picnic tables and two built-in barbecues — reservable by form at the Country Club.

The lagoon pool with its beach entry and blue shade sail, palms behind

The roofed BBQ pavilion with six picnic tables and two built-in barbecues

Streets and safety

The estate’s streets are quiet and internal. Footpaths are wide, continuous and actively maintained — the community association renews them using an engineered joint system that stops slabs lifting into trip edges.

Breakfast Point is a declared No Go Zone for Lime bikes and the community association works to keep them out. They still turn up occasionally. The intent is real, the enforcement isn’t perfect.

The village

The Village Centre, 10–20 Market Street: SUPA IGA plus Liquor, Breakfast Point Pharmacy, Canada Bay Dental, Franck Provost, Yolla Collective, cafés. On Tennyson Road: a medical clinic, iPhysio Mortlake, restaurants, and The Palace Hotel.

The SUPA IGA plus Liquor is better than an IGA has any right to be. Proper deli counter, good wine. You can decide at five o’clock to have people over and be ready by seven.

The third bedroom set up as a child's room, with a single bed and rug

The second bedroom set up as a home office with a desk and armchair

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