Overview
About Friendly Beaches Campground
Why stop
- Quiet, scrub-screened sites with the beach close by.
Heads up
- No fresh water, and busy periods can fill before late afternoon.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Freycinet Tour Guide
Your drive to Friendly Beaches Campground, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Freycinet 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.
Recorded for this place
Friendly Beaches“Friendly Beaches is ahead, a long stretch of pale sand broken by rocky outcrops and tide pools. I'd stop for a shoreline walk rather than a swim: this is exposed, unpatrolled coast, and the surf can be powerful.”
Plays as you drive up to Friendly Beaches Campground in the Parkwolf Freycinet Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- The Little Wallaby at the Forest Edge
- Two Brothers and a Map
- Crystals from Beneath the Surface
- A Plover Chick’s First Job
- 24 audio storiesacross Freycinet’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Wombat, Echidna, Red-necked Wallaby, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 21 trails, 29 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Friendly Beaches Campground
What you getFriendly Beaches Campground is a basic tent and campervan campground at Isaacs Point in the…
Friendly Beaches Campground is a basic tent and campervan campground at Isaacs Point in the Friendly Beaches section of Freycinet National Park. Sites sit among coastal scrub, with the beach close by. Go for a quiet coastal camp, not for resort comforts.
Arrive readyCamping is first come, first served, with a 14-night maximum and no advance booking.
Camping is first come, first served, with a 14-night maximum and no advance booking. In busy summer periods, arrive early; campers regularly report finding the area full later in the day. There are pit toilets but no fresh water, so bring all the drinking water you need. Freycinet is fuel-stove-only, and a Tasmanian Parks Pass is required.
By the surfThe draw is the mix of scrub-screened sites and an open coast nearby.
The draw is the mix of scrub-screened sites and an open coast nearby. Wallabies are often reported around camp, though sightings are never guaranteed. The beach is exposed to ocean swell; visitors say it can be too rough for swimming, so check conditions before getting in.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Freycinet
27 sightingsWombatMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
35 sightingsEchidnaMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
358 sightingsRed-necked WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
17 sightingsPademelonMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
27 sightingsWhite-bellied Sea-EagleMost seen around 5 PMSighting map
50 sightingsKookaburraMost seen around 7 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Freycinet. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
