Overview
About Richardsons Beach
Why stop
- Sheltered water and a clear view of the Hazards
Heads up
- The adjacent campground makes this a developed beach stop
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Freycinet Tour Guide
Your drive to Richardsons 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
Visitor Centre, Ranger Creek and Richardsons Beach“You're coming up on the visitor centre and Ranger Creek area, beside Richardsons Beach.”
Plays as you drive up to Richardsons Beach in the Parkwolf Freycinet Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Coles Bay’s Shopping-Bag Experiment
- Freycinet Lodge Dining
- Honeymoon Bay
- Sleepy Bay and Little Gravelly Beach
- 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
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Guide
More about Richardsons Beach
An easy beach stop with the Hazards across the bayRichardsons Beach is a long white-sand shore on Freycinet's sheltered western side, beside the…
Richardsons Beach is a long white-sand shore on Freycinet's sheltered western side, beside the main campground and visitor centre. It's an easy place to swim, paddle or walk the sand with the Hazards rising across Coles Bay. The water is often calm, but conditions can change. Come for a simple beach stop and a wide mountain view; the campground next door means this isn't a remote shore.
Walk a little way along the sandShort paths through the campground reach the beach.
Short paths through the campground reach the beach. The bay and Hazards open up as you stroll along the water instead of stopping at the first access. For a photo, keep a strip of sand in the foreground and frame the Hazards across the bay; the layered shore, water and ridge show what makes this beach distinctive.
Dunes with a much older storyThe campground sits beside extensive shell middens in the dunes, including one of the largest…
The campground sits beside extensive shell middens in the dunes, including one of the largest known on Tasmania's east coast. Oyster-shell middens along Richardsons Beach are traces of Aboriginal use of this coast, older than the campground and visitor centre. Treat the dunes as part of that history, not just extra sand behind the beach.
Make the visit workFreycinet is reached by Coles Bay Road and requires a Tasmanian parks pass.
Freycinet is reached by Coles Bay Road and requires a Tasmanian parks pass. The adjacent campground has accessible toilets and accessible powered and unpowered sites for campers. Coles Bay's shops are about a ten-minute walk from the campground if you need supplies.
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.
