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| Kangaroos on the beach
near Murramarang National Park |
Durras North, Durras Lake and Durras South
Sleepy holiday resort on the edges of Murramurrang
National Park famous for the large population of
beach-loving kangaroos.
Durras North, Durras Lake and Durras South are three sleepy
settlements approximately 280 km south of Sydney and 17 km
north of Batemans Bay. In recent times they have become
popular holiday resorts for people from both Canberra and
Sydney. They are also easily accessible from Victoria via
the Princes Highway.
The main appeal of the area is that it has little or no
tourist development (with the notable exception of the
suitably discreet Murramurrang Resort) and the beaches and
coastline are ideal for people wanting to enjoy the natural
beauty of the region. This is an area for bushwalking,
relaxing, swimming and fishing. It is an area of great
natural beauty which has been largely undisturbed, unlike
the beaches which lie to the south of Batemans Bay.
The coastline is characterised by quiet beaches, cliffs
and rocky outcrops.
Things to see:
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| A kangaroo on the beach
at Murramarang Resort |
Murramarang National Park
Murramarang National Park covers about 27 km of beautiful
coastline and forest scenery in three separate sections
stretching from Kioloa south to Batemans Bay. No more than 2
km across at its widest point it features a variety of
landforms, including sandy and shingle beaches, rugged
headlands, tombolos, cliffs, rock stacks, wave-cut
platforms, fossil-bearing rocks and four offshore islands.
The wildlife is fairly typical of the coast: eastern grey
kangaroos, swamp wallabies, red-necked wallabies and other
mammals. The birdlife is various, including parrots,
finches, honeyeaters, eagles, hawks, terns, thrushes,
parrots, oystercatchers, wrens, muttonbirds, albatrosses and
fantails. It is common to see kangaroos feeding near the
beaches.
There are pockets of rainforest in sheltered gullies,
especially around Durras Mountain, but the habitat is mostly
wet eucalypt forest of spotted gums with an understorey of
burrawangs leading to banksia, she-oaks and heath on the
beaches and headlands. The Aborigines derived a starchy food
from the otherwise poisonous burrawangs.
In terms of recreation the park offers swimming, surfing,
fishing, picnicking, beachwalking, bushwalking and nature
study.
The walk to Durras Mtn (283 m) in the north of the park
is popular. It offers spectacular views of the coastline and
the ranges inland.
Wasp Head
The approach to the southern section of the park is via the
Durras Road. North Head Road branches off to the
southernmost sections of the park while the main road leads
into South Durras. The rocks, cliffs and bays of Wasp Head
lie just to the south of the township. To get there continue
through to the eastern end of the village and turn right
following the roads closest to the shore until you reach
Murramarang Resort. Keep left at the fork just past the
resort then take the right at the next fork. The tracks at
Wasp Head lead to fossils, interesting sandstone formations,
an abundance of shells and rock pools and a one-metre fault
line running right up the coast. A little further north is
Mill Point where a timber mill once stood. Its rusted old
boiler still lies in the grass.
Beaches in Murramarang National Park
If you return to the fork that appears just past the caravan
park and and follow the other branch south along the coast
road it will take you through Emily Miller, Dark, Myrtle,
Richmond, Oaky and Honeysuckle Beaches to North Head. Dark
Beach, five minutes walk from the car park, receives its
name from the many small black shingles which are divided
from a white, sandy beach by a clump of rocks. The views
along the coast are excellent from Flat Rock Island.
Honeysuckle Bay is full of strange spotted gums with stunted
trunks and horizontal branches, the result of deficient
nutrients. Down at North Head are very large rock pools,
located at the northern end of the head, in which people
like to snorkel. From there you can head north along the
coast road and turn left into North Head Road which will
take you through the Benandarah State Forest and back to the
highway.
Pebbly and Depot Beaches
Both noted Australian historian, Manning Clarke and poet R.F.
Brissenden lived here. The latter wrote a number of poems
inspired by the location, including 'Depot Beach' and 'Rock
Crabs, Pebbly Beach'. Fellow poet David Campbell was also
inspired on those occasions when he visited Brissenden.
To access the middle section, containing Pebbly and Depot
Beach, leave the highway a few kilometres north of
Benanderah at East Lynne heading east along Mt Agony Road
(local enquiries can be made at the East Lynne Store on the
Princes Highway (02 4478 6050). This leads to Pebbly Beach,
though North Durras Road branches off to the south to Depot
Beach and Durras North. Livingstone Creek Road and Pebbly
Beach Road also depart the highway further north and lead to
Pebbly Beach.
Pebbly Beach is renowned for its safe, sheltered aspect
and the many wallabies which frequent the beach. Ideal for
families it is located in a pretty little bay, enclosed on
three sides by hills and well-established eucalypts. Early
in the twentieth century the surrounding forest was logged
and the timber carted by bullocks to a sawmill near the
beach. The sawn timber was then transported along a tram
line to the northern section of the beach where it was
deposited on the rocks. A ship was then moored nearby and
the timber winched aboard.
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