Beach · Great Otway National Park
A long curve of sand beneath red cliffs and low-tide rockpools.
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Great Otway Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Great Otway 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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Point Addis: Coast from the Boardwalk“Point Addis is coming up, with a boardwalk linking several lookouts above the surf and sandy cove.”
Plays as you drive up to Addiscot Beach in the Parkwolf Great Otway Tour Guide.
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Guide
Addiscot Beach is a 1.8 km, southeast-facing curve of sand east of Point Addis, backed by red, slumping cliffs that reach about 80 m near Jarosite Headland. Go for a beach walk, look for rockpools at low tide, or watch the smaller wave breaks that make it a local surf-school spot. Time the shore route beneath Jarosite for low tide; high water can make that connecting stretch impassable.
The steep cliffs are made of soft sand and clay and continue to erode. Keep well away from their edges and bases, and obey any signs or closures. This is open coast with strong currents and undertows, and no Surf Life Saving Australia service is listed for the beach. For a photo, include the sweep of shoreline and cliff wall together; a tight crop of the cliffs hides their scale.
Point Addis Road reaches the access car park, with public toilets at Point Addis rather than on the sand. There is no food service listed at the beach, so bring water and a snack. Dogs are allowed on lead. The eastern end is officially optional-clothing; that applies to that end, not the whole beach.
The beach's name is tied to nearby Addiscot Homestead, which local history traces to a cottage belonging to Edward Brown Addis, Commissioner of Crown Lands. This is Wadawurrung Sea Country; Wadawurrung Traditional Owners maintain a continuing connection to and role in caring for this coast.
Wildlife
204 sightingsKoalaMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
35 sightingsGrey KangarooMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
109 sightingsEchidnaMost seen around 5 PMSighting map
58 sightingsKookaburraMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
97 sightingsSwamp WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
20 sightingsBrushtail PossumMost seen around 8 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Great Otway. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
Keep exploring
ModeratePoint Addis and Bells Beach Loop14.5 km · 4 hr · 2.3 km awayFrom forest to Bells Beach, finish along sand at low tide
EasyKoorie Cultural Walk1.1 km · 1 hr · 2.3 km awayShort interpretive walk to a lookout above Addiscot Beach
ModeratePoint Addis to Red Rocks Walk2.9 km · 1 hr · 2.3 km awayA beach-to-cliff coastal walk from Point Addis to Red Rocks.
ModerateRed Rocks to Anglesea Walk5.1 km · 1.8 hr · 3.4 km awayCliff-top heath and surf, with steps up from Red Rocks.
ModerateShiney Eye Circuit9.3 km · 3.5 hr · 6.2 km awayHeathland flowers and Anglesea views, with a steep finish
ModerateAnglesea to Aireys Inlet Walk13.4 km · 4 hr · 7.9 km awaySand, scrub, old-road remnants and a lighthouse make a full coast day.
ModerateAnglesea Perimeter Walk22 km · 6.5 hr · 8 km awayA full-day circuit linking heath, wetlands and coast.
Beach · 0.4 km awaySouthside BeachCliff-backed surf and a marked clothing-optional stretch
Picnic area · 2.1 km awayIronbark Basin Picnic AreaA picnic break with a short loop into ironbark woodland.Sight · 2.3 km awayPoint Addis Visitor AreaA clifftop boardwalk opens up Point Addis’s limestone coast.Parkwolf’s Great Otway ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
