The Great Lakes Visitors' Centre is open seven days a week and is located in Little
Street, Forster. You can contact them on (02) 6554 8799 or, toll-free 1800 802 692. It conducts bookings and can provide tourist maps, tide charts and
fishing guides, and information regarding local attractions, eco tours, walking tours, accommodation,
activities as well as cruises relating to deep-sea fishing, dolphin-watching etc.
The Beaches
The Forster-Tuncurry area has a number of beaches:
- Tuncurry Beach, offers surfing with a rock pool, kiosk, and picnic area.
- Forster Beach, adjacent the southern breakwall in Forster is patrolled in season.
The ocean baths are at its eastern edge.
- Pebbly Beach is the next beach along, which is another good surfing spot.
- The Tanks, an unusual rock formation where the waves spray water into a protected safe
swimming area.
- One Mile Beach is another good surfing location, with a surf club, kiosk, showers and toilets. It is
patrolled in season.
- Burgess Beach is a small and quiet beach accessed by a steep path off Burgess St. It has plenty
of small rock cave formations.
- Bulls Paddock, which is part of Seven Mile Beach, south of Cape Hawke, also features excellent
surfing.
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The Pebbly Beach Bicentennial Walk
The Pebbly Beach Bicentennial Walk commences off North St, near the ocean baths of Forster Beach. It leads
eastwards over Second Head along the foreshore, between Bennetts Head Rd and the ocean, past The Tanks,
through Bennetts Head Reserve and south past One Mile Beach to Burgess Beach.
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