Caves Beach is a locality on the Swansea peninsula between Lake Macquarie and the Pacific Ocean in Greater Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

To the north is Swansea Heads and Ham's Beach, named after a family living on a hill behind the surf lifesaving club.

There were campsites at Ham's beach because of the good fishing and availability of a fine-grained quartzite for making stone implements.

At one stage he involved a Japanese consortium in a mining venture called Silver Valley Minerals but it failed to develop.

The pub was famous and very popular throughout the 60s and 70s and attracted the attention of bands such as Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel and The Angels, who performed there.