Sight · Booderee National Park
A quick wetland pause on the way from Cave Beach to Bherwerre
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Booderee Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Booderee National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Cave Beach: Surf and Shoreline Caves“You're nearing Cave Beach's car park, with a walk through the day-use area to reach the sand. Come for the open ocean shore and surf; the caves are small, shallow openings in the rocky edge.”
Plays as you drive up to Ryans Swamp in the Parkwolf Booderee Tour Guide.
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Ryans Swamp is a coastal wetland beside the walking route from Cave Beach’s camping area to Bherwerre Beach. From Cave Beach car park, follow the main track to the camping area, then take the path on its western side around the swamp toward the beach. It’s a pause to fold into that walk, not a separate lookout.
Swamp hens, egrets and ducks use the wetland, and frogs, snakes and turtles live here too. The southern emu-wren also favors the dense, damp heath near the water. It stays low in the vegetation, so a quiet, patient look from the path is your best chance of spotting one. Give wildlife room and watch from a distance.
The Cave Beach camping area is about 300 m from its car park. Public toilets, fresh water, cold showers and wood barbecues are at the nearby camping and day-use area, not beside the swamp. The visitor route is a path around the wetland; treat it as a wildlife pause on the way to the beach.
Wildlife
202 sightingsGrey KangarooMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
26 sightingsEchidnaMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
16 sightingsRed-necked WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
116 sightingsSwamp WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
93 sightingsKookaburraMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
22 sightingsYellow-tailed Black CockatooMost seen around 5 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Booderee. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
Keep exploring
EasyCave Beach to Bherwerre Beach Walk1.8 km · 45 min · 0.5 km awayA short walk from Cave Beach through Ryans Swamp to Bherwerre Beach.
ModerateCave Beach to Bherwerre Beach Fire Trail Loop Walk2.8 km · 1 hr · 0.5 km awayRyans Swamp to Bherwerre Beach, then back by fire trail.
EasyForest Walk1.3 km · 30 min · 2.1 km awayA ferny garden loop with Lake McKenzie views in half an hour.
EasyPimple Track4 km · 1.5 hr · 3.2 km awayA 4 km return walk to Bherwerre’s long, south-facing surf beach.
ModerateSteamers Beach Walk4.6 km · 2 hr · 5.2 km awayA shaded bush track ends on an isolated, cliff-backed beach.
ModerateBooderee Circuit Trail11.4 km · 4 hr · 5.2 km awayFrom eucalypt shade to sea cliffs and Blacks Waterhole.
ModerateSt Georges Head Trail13.8 km · 5 hr · 5.2 km awayOcean cliffs after miles of quiet, undulating management track.
EasyTelegraph Creek Nature Trail2.4 km · 1 hr · 5.8 km awayAn easy loop through creekside forest, swamp and spring heath.
Campground · 0.2 km awayCave Beach CampgroundGrassy camping beneath tea trees, with kangaroos wandering through.
Beach · 0.3 km awayBherwerre BeachA long sandy shore with an 1835 shipwreck beneath it.
Beach · 0.6 km awayCave BeachSurf, turquoise water and small caves in the shoreline rock.
Sight · 2.1 km awayBooderee Botanic GardensA shady walk between coastal plants and Lake McKenzie.
Beach · 2.6 km awaySummercloud BayA community surf spot with public ramp and picnic access.
Beach · 3.3 km awayWhiting BeachA 50-metre beach with a waterfall that doesn't always run.
Beach · 3.7 km awayBlacks HarbourA sandy shore pause on Booderee’s long headland circuit.
Beach · 4.2 km awayKittys BeachA 50 m beach reached by a long headland walk.Parkwolf’s Booderee ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
