The Conjola National Park extends south of Berrara for 4 km to Bendalong Boat Harbour and includes five beaches (NSW 454-459). Beaches NSW 455-457 are located along the central 2 km long section of rock-dominated coast and are linked by a continuous strip of high tide sand. Bangalay Beach (NSW 455) lies 300 m south of the southern Berrara Beach and consists of a 460 m long sand beach wedged between wide rock platforms, with a 180 m long central section open to the sea, and shallow reefs extending 300 m offshore. While wave are usually low at the shore a permanent rip drains out either side of the central reef. It is backed by densely vegetated slopes rising to 10 m, with the southern bluffs site of the Walter Hood monument, dedicated to a tragic shipwreck in 1870. On the southern side of the bluff is the relatively straight southeast facing 930 m long Monument Beach (NSW 456). The monument, a picnic area and the beach can be reached via the Bangalay forest track. The beach is fringed by rocks for the first 300 m, with the usually blocked mouth of Nerrindillah Creek and lagoon, and 10 m high densely vegetated foredune extending south of the creek mouth to the southern bluffs. Waves average 1.3 m and typically cut three rips, one against the rock platforms at each end and a more transient central rip. read more

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