Booti Booti National Park: Cape Hawke, Seven Mile Beach, Elizabeth Beach

This day, the sun was roasting us. Temperatures were in the high thirties and it became uncomfortably hot. Originally we planned to camp out on the Seven Mile or Elizabeth Beach for the day, after visiting Cape Hawke.

As we got out of the car at the Cape Hawke lookout car park, it was damp and hot. Mosquitoes were starting to eat us up immediately and it looked like a steep path through the forest to get us to the lookout tower. I heard the carpark-mosquitoes already telling their friends in the woods that lunch is coming along. Nope, my friends, we decided to skip the lookout and check out the beaches instead.

So we headed to the Seven Mile beach first. I have hardly ever seen such a marvelous stretch of sand and beautiful waters. However, the sun was just past beyond its highest point and the sand became so hot, that I literally burned my feet – even wearing my thongs – while crossing the dunes. Not a place for our six month old little one to be even with 50+ sunscreen applied and our pop-up beach tent set up.

As we drove on southwards and checked out Elizabeth beach, we noticed that even the local surf boys had left the water and chilled in the one shaded picnic area. Hence we changed plans again and drove on to Seal Rocks, which is the very north of the Myall Lakes National Park

Myall Lakes National Park: Seal Rocks, Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse

Driving to Seal Rocks takes your through a small paved road. Some maps still show the road as unsealed, but it has got a good layer of tarmac, so no worries if you want to get there on a 2WD regular car.

Seal Rocks is a very small, extremely laid back town, which sparkled a bit the charm of a former Hippie colony to me. The best you can do there is chill out at the beach.

However, my wife insisted that we do a walk that day. So what’s better than crawling up another lighthouse hill at 30+ degrees? This one was the steepest we took on so far. It was so steep that even the robust National Park rangers had put up a funny sign, which you see on one of the pictures below.

After returning from the lighthouse, we drove back via the Booti Boot National Park to our base in Tuncurry.