Little Hyams Beach is a small, quieter neighbour to Hyams Beach, tucked just to the north with a rocky point on each side. Several guides single it out as a better snorkel than the main beach: the Shoalhaven tourism body notes clear waters and excellent snorkelling conditions, and the Culture Trip describes blue groper, small stingrays and Port Jackson sharks in the kelp gardens off Hyams Point.

The habitat is a shallow mix of rocky reef, kelp and sand. Eastern blue groper are the stars, often curious enough to follow snorkellers, and Port Jackson sharks rest on the bottom under the kelp, especially in the cooler months. Small stingrays and fiddler rays cruise the sand, and the rocks shelter rockfish, leatherjackets, wrasse and juvenile fish. It is a pleasant, easy scuba dive for beginners as well as a snorkel, though depths are modest and published information on scuba specifics is limited.

Being smaller and less known than Hyams Beach, it is usually less crowded, although parking in the village is always tight in summer. Conditions follow the rest of the western shore: best in westerly weather, choppy in north-easterlies. Chinamans Beach lies a short walk further north for another option. As part of the Jervis Bay Marine Park, the area is subject to zoning rules; check the map before fishing or collecting. Early mornings on a westerly day give the calmest water and the best chance of having the reef to yourself. Water temperatures range from about 15 °C in late winter to 23 °C in late summer, so a 5–7 mm wetsuit is sensible for anything longer than a quick summer snorkel, and a hood helps from June to October.

Jervis Bay is about 2.5–3 hours south of Sydney via the M1 and Princes Highway, turning onto Jervis Bay Road at Falls Creek. Little Hyams is at the northern end of Hyams Beach village, near the Cyrus Street end of the village, with a short path down to the beach. Parking is very limited, especially in summer.

Enter from the sand and snorkel or dive along the rocks on either side of the small beach.

Inside Jervis Bay the water is sheltered from ocean swell, but the bay is big enough for wind chop: strong north-easterlies (summer afternoons) make the western and southern shores choppy, and southerly or westerly winds affect the northern shore less. Diving is possible on most days of the year at one shore or another. Visibility is usually 8–15 m, better in winter, and drops after heavy rain when Currambene Creek and Moona Moona Creek flush tannin water into the bay.

Tides are small but high tide gives better visibility at the beach entries. Like Hyams Beach it faces east and is affected by north-easterly winds.

Enter from the beach and follow the rocky point out through the kelp gardens, looking under ledges for Port Jackson sharks and over the sand for small rays; return along the same rocks.

No scheduled guided shore dives; Dive Jervis Bay and other Huskisson operators hire gear and give site advice, and occasionally run training or snorkel sessions.