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Stage 8 - Gerroa to Shoalhaven Heads

It was with some sadness that we finally left the Kiama area. We had spent quite a few days there and had come to love it greenness, open vistas and escarpment backdrop. The landscape of the South Coast changes quite sharply at Gerroa; gone the rolling hills and headlands, welcome to the flat open plains of the Shoalhaven River basin. Nonetheless, the track before us was inviting after the steep climbs and descents of our past route – 12 km of flat smooth sand along the isolation of the Seven Mile Beach.

The sweeping curve of Seven Mile Beach viewed from the heights of Gerroa

After a complimentary cappuccino from the congenial owner of Café Amoré at Gerroa, we crossed the footbridge over Crooked River and stepped onto the beach. Footwear was quickly discarded as we strolled down the low-tide walker's super highway of firm flat sand, to our left the steady low roar of the surf, to our right the low dunes and strip of coastal forest and heathland that form the Seven Mile Beach National Park. We walked in splendid isolation, apart from the occasional surfer or fisherman at areas where a track through the Park provided access to the beach, and the unexpected sight of several horses pacing along the beach, buggies and drivers in tow, on a beach training run.

Crossing the Crooked River

On the lowtide superhighway

Beach training run

Coastal forest in the Seven
Mile Beach National Park

Dune lunch stop

Flowers of the forest

Finally we reached our destination, the quiet little fisherman's town of Shoalhaven Heads, cutting inland from the beach to our accommodation on the banks of the river estuary.


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