Summer Bay is the fictional coastal town featured in the Australian soap opera, Home and Away. Palm Beach, the northernmost beach in Sydney, is used for the show's exterior scenes to depict the Bay. Between 2010 and 2014, the Lane Cove River Tourist Park in Macquarie Park was used as the location for filming of scenes involving the Summer Bay Caravan Park.
Palm Beach, Sydney, where Home and Away exterior shots are filmed
The Summer Bay Surf Lifesaving Club set.
Indiana Evans, Mark Furze and the crew during filming
Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales, where he noticed locals were complaining about the construction of a foster home and against the idea of foster children from the city living in the area. The soap opera was initially going to be called Refuge, but the name was changed to the "friendlier" title of Home and Away once production began.
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Palm Beach in Sydney's Northern Beaches district has been used to represent Summer Bay since Home and Away began in 1988.
Ray Meagher (Alf Stewart) is currently the only remaining original cast member in Home and Away.
