Overview
About Little Gravelly Beach
Why stop
- A small cove with a distinctive smooth pebble-and-granite shore.
Heads up
- The final descent is steep and rough.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Freycinet Tour Guide
Your drive to Little Gravelly Beach, 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
Sleepy Bay and Little Gravelly Beach“You're nearing the Sleepy Bay car park, the start of a short walk to orange-lichen rocks and blue-green water.”
Plays as you drive up to Little Gravelly Beach in the Parkwolf Freycinet Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
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- Freycinet Lodge Dining
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- 24 audio storiesacross Freycinet’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Wombat, Echidna, Red-necked Wallaby, and 13 more
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Guide
More about Little Gravelly Beach
A small cove past Sleepy BayLittle Gravelly Beach is a small, rocky cove at the end of the Sleepy Bay Track in Freycinet…
Little Gravelly Beach is a small, rocky cove at the end of the Sleepy Bay Track in Freycinet National Park. Its shore is a mix of tiny, smooth granite pebbles and larger boulders. If you're already stopping at Sleepy Bay, this is a worthwhile extra stop for a closer look at the coast; the final way down is the catch.
The walk downStart at the signed Sleepy Bay car park and continue right past the first lookout.
Start at the signed Sleepy Bay car park and continue right past the first lookout. The cove is part of a roughly 1.5 km return walk; plan about 30 minutes. The track is short, but the last descent to the beach is steep and rough, with rocky steps and sections close to high cliff tops. This isn't a step-free beach approach. If uneven ground is a problem, enjoy the first lookout and turn back there.
Granite, water and the viewThe tiny granite pebbles are the detail to look for: wave action has worn them smooth.
The tiny granite pebbles are the detail to look for: wave action has worn them smooth. Stop at the upper approach for the whole cove, then down on the shore use the pebbles and orange-grey rock as foreground against the water. The boulders and headlands make this feel like a rocky cove, not a broad sandy beach.
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.
