Quiet beach camping spot in Byron area

We go to the South Ballina Beach Caravan Park. Cross over the Richmond River on the ferry in Ballina, or turn off the pacific Highway at Wardel. it is the second caravan park on the RHS. great park (IMHO), and with in 100 meters of the beach. 4WD access to beach (no permits). I have stayed there 4 times this year.

Simon C

We have just spent the last 4 days at Pebbly Beach. 4WD only, and you need to go in 2 hrs either side of low tide.

Pebbly Beach is in the south end of Yuraygir NP. Camp area is 40m from the beach, with shaded areas and grass spots. Toilets, you need to bring everything else. Fires ok, some camp sites have BBQ.

Yogibob,

Try Broken Head Caravan Park

Just south of Byron Bay and right on the beach.

Cheers,

Cruiser

Broken Head CP is tucked into a little valley at the northern side of Broken Head and it's NP, bottom end of Tallows Beach 5km south of Byron. 50m from front of the small CP and you are on the patrolled beach!
Alternatively Lennox Head, riight across the road from the beach, on the shores of Lake Ainsworth, 15-20km south of Byron, 10-15km north of Ballina.

Both quieter than Balliina or Byron, yet a IGA within few hundred metres at Lennox and maybe a 1-2km to Suffolk Park for Broken head.
I have always liked the look of Brunswick Head & it's CP about 20km north of Byron, especailly now that the Highway bypasses the town, but are less familiar with it.

Depends if you want to be in a major town like Ballina with all it's facilities or somewhere a bit quieter.

Consider Brunswick heads as well - seehttp://tinyurl.com/yzuvjf6 - The markers for "B" & "E" have slipped south a bit. Terrace Reserve "A" is just a short walk to the beach over a foot bridge. There are good camping sites as well as van sites.

PeterD

have a look at this thread from another forum, it has some good suggestions for around the area you want
http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=48554&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Hi!
Try Brooms Head or Readcliff national park. Both right on the beach dont stay there very often as we live 10 minutes away but have been known to much to our kids amusement (you live there)
Barb

Quiet beach camping spots are very hard to find at Byron Bay.

There are many nice caravan parks in the area and you can see photos of them on my Caravan Park Photos website.

IF you are prepared to be 170km south of Byron, then Corindi Beach or Red Rock are outstanding if you want to be right on the beach in very quiet little villages. Both more or less surrounded by bushland, 45km south of Grafton, 40km north of Coff's Harbour.
Both basic council style CP.
You could also camp at Sheep station Creek in Yuragir (spelling?) NP, about 15km off the highway north of Corindi. Beautiful location, firewood, good shade,eco toilers but about an 800m walk to the beach, or you could drive the 3-4km detour to drive onto the beach. It is the take off point for Pebbly beach mentioned above
We were blown away with the beuaty of Standen River, a few km south of Brooms head east of Mclean, but we were turned off by the tent peg inside tent peg closeness when we saw it in January a few years ago.
Apologies if I have mispelt a few names.

Thanks guys and gals for all your wonderful suggestions.

Broken Head Caravan Park was our choice, but on ringing to book in we discovered that they only have a couple of sites suitable for our 19' Bushtracker which also has an extended draw bar. None of these sites are available until next week.

So we are currently staying at the Lake Ainsworth/Lennox Heads caravan park. It is lovely and quiet at the moment.

We checked out Broken Head yesterday and narrowed it down to one site only which we will move to on Monday - as it is our preferred park.

If time permits we will check out a few of the other suggestions on our way back to Victoria.

Thanks again everyone
Wendy