Hawke's Bay Beach Explained

Hawke's Bay or Hawkesbay is a beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, located 20 km southwest of Karachi city. The beach is named after Bladen Wilmer Hawke, who owned a house on the beach during the 1930s.^[1]

The beach is very popular, with hundreds of people visiting daily for swimming, camel and horse riding, and vacations.

Marine life

This beach is known for being a nesting ground for green sea turtle and olive ridley sea turtle during winter months. Due to this, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) organised a wetland centre on the beach for information regarding turtles.^[2]

See main article: Hawkes Bay case. Various accidents have occurred due to lack of proper security and damaged boats used for giving rides to people.

In February 1983, a Shia pilgrim drowned near the beach.
On July 19, 2015, four boys drowned near the beach.^[3]
On September 9, 2017, 12 members of three families drowned near the beach.^[4]
On July 11, 2019, a teenager Kamran (age 14) and an adult Moiz Younus (age 24) drowned while on picnic with family.^[5]

News: CITIES: A KARACHI BY ANY OTHER NAME. Sibtain Naqvi. Dawn. 31 July 2017. 29 November 2023.
Web site: Hawkes Bay Beach in Karachi: A Wonderfully Sunny & Sandy Beach . Group In. https://web.archive.org/web/20180813174819/http://www.groupin.pk/blog/hawkes-bay-beach-in-karachi-a-wonderfully-sunny-sandy-beach/. 13 Aug 2018 . 29 November 2023.
Web site: Four drown in Karachi's Hawkes Bay beach. GEO TV News website. 14 May 2017. 12 August 2020.
News: 12 picknickers drown at Karachi's Hawksbay beach, say police. Dawn newspaper. 29 November 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20170910023538/https://www.dawn.com/news/1356618/12-picnickers-drown-at-karachis-hawksbay-beach-say-police. dead. 10 September 2017.
News: Two drown off Hawkesbay . 12 July 2019 . Dawn newspaper . 29 November 2023.