Bateau Bay faces the Pacific, and the southern section of Wyrrabalong National Park, with the Bateau Bay Beach picnic area and Crackneck Point lookout, covers part of the suburb. At the 2021 Census it had 5,204 private dwellings; of the occupied ones, 79.5% were separate houses, 11.0% townhouses or semi-detached homes and 9.3% flats. The National Construction Code treats land within 1 km of breaking surf as a severe corrosion environment for structural steel, so external fittings on blocks near the beach are worth inspecting. We did the plumbing for a three-room renovation here, covering a bathroom, powder room and laundry, with the old external sewer stack renewed to 100 mm PVC.