Broken Head Nature Reserve occupies 3 km of rocky coast between Broken Head and Jews Point. The reserve protects the northernmost area of native coastal rain forest in NSW. Access to the Reserve and its four beaches is from the Broken Head camping area or headland car park or from the road that winds its way down to the northern end of Seven Mile Beach, where it dead ends. The Reserve offers four natural beaches fringed by jagged, broken metamorphic rocks and sea stacks, and backed by steep slopes covered in sub-tropical rain forests. The four beaches are, King's 1 (NSW 17), a small beach up to 100 m long (when present) with numerous rock outcrops. King's 2 (NSW 18) is a 250 m long permanent beach and closest to the southern car park. Bray's Beach (NSW 19) is also 250 m long, backed by a rear cobble beach and can only be reached along the track south of Kings. White's Beach (NSW 20) can be up to 350 m in length, but more often is broken into three small pockets of sand, backed by cobble beaches, but sharing a common rip-dominated surf zone. Wave energy is relatively high on all beaches, with rips usually crossing the attached inner bar, against all headlands and on the outer bar, with strong currents sweeping the intervening trough. Furthermore sand pulses moving north from Seven Mile Beach to Broken Head Beach result in variable beach width, length and topography, which at times can expose numerous rocks. In fact Kings Beach 1 is not always there, while the northern end of White's Beach may be either continuous or a series of rocks and sand patches. read more

Beach Length: 0.1km