McBrides Beach — Attraction in Forster

McBrides Beach is in the northern part of Booti Booti National Park at Cape Hawke at Forster. It's accessed only via a steep walking track, completed in 2020.

It's one of those beaches that has you instantly mesmerised and is as good as it looks. It really is the ideal place to escape for the day.

The foot track to McBrides Beach starts at the carpark halfway up the hill. The connecting track to Burgess Beach also starts there. The foot track to the lookout starts at the carpark at the top of the hill where the road ends.

This beach is not patrolled.

There is no 4WD access and camping is...

Easy enough walk in, took about 20 minutes at a casual pace, with young kids and grandparents. The walk back out was a little more difficult as it’s uphill, but the beach was well worth putting up with the whinging. Beautiful and secluded. Bring a reliable mosquito repellent as there were plenty, and they were quite hungry, but only during the walks in and out, not on the beach itself. Lovely rock pools to explore, and one that was refreshing for the whole family to sit in as it was refreshed by waves topping it up. Plenty of parking available. No 4WD access, and camping...

100% worth doing if you can handle grade 3 bushwalk. Easy walk to the beach but pretty steep on the way back. The beach is amazing. Both times we went there this month we had the whole beach to ourselves. You can swim in the rocks area on south end or swim in the beach. North end there is a cool little (tiny) cave. Last year we saw a huge snake on the beach but this year we just saw one huge and one small Goanna. If I lived near here I'd go here everyday (for the exercise and...