Birubi Point to One Mile Beach walking track is a 7.5km, grade 3 hike located in Tomaree National Park, New South Wales. The hike should take around 4 hours to complete.
Hike overview
This 7.5 km one-way walk from Birubi Point to One Mile Beach offers ocean views and Aboriginal culture. Located in Tomaree National Park near Port Stephens, it winds through several coastal villages with convenient facilities.
If you're after salty air, sand dunes, Aboriginal culture, and great swimming this day walk in Tomaree National Park is for you. Choose to start your walk from Birubi Point surf lifesaving club near Anna Bay, or from One Mile Beach surf lifesaving club.
If you choose to complete this 7.5 km hike one-way it will take 4 to 4.5 hours. Be sure to organise a car shuffle, or, catch a taxi or local bus back to your start point.
Those up for a challenge might prefer to take more time and enjoy the 15 km return-walk over a full day.
The track is moderately easy, traversing gentle hills, coastal heathland, and across rock platforms. Listen out for whip birds, wattle birds and rosellas up in the trees in the shadier sections. It conveniently passes the coastal villages of Fishermans Bay and Boat Harbour where you can fill up on water and use the bathrooms.
This track is part of the longer Tomaree Costal Walk, a 27km connected walk that you can complete over 2 or 3 days. It crosses back and forth between land managed by Port Stephens Council, and sections of Tomaree National Park.
Route and GPX file
Max elevation: 67 m
Min elevation: 3 m
Total climbing: 178 m
Total descent: -177 m
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Getting there
Birubi Point to One Mile Beach walking track is in Tomaree National Park. To get there, take the Pacific Highway from Newcastle or Buladelah, turn east into Richardson Road and continue along Nelson Bay Road. Turn right into Gan Gan Road to reach Anna Bay, Boat Harbour, and One Mile Beach. If starting the walk from Birubi Point at Anna Bay, parking is available at Birubi Point, near the surf lifesaving club, Robinson Reserve car park and Pacific Avenue car park. If starting the walk from One Mile Beach parking is available at One Mile Beach, behind the surf lifesaving club.
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About the region
Tomaree National Park near Port Stephens is on Worimi Country. It's a great place for a weekend getaway. With so many coastal lookouts it's easy to go whale watching, hike the tracks, or explore the historical significance of Fort Tomaree.
Tomaree National Park provides a magnificent backdrop to the coastal villages of Nelson Bay, Shoal Bay, Fingal Bay, One Mile, Boat Harbour and Anna Bay. With 27km of connected hiking Tomaree Coastal Walk offers you a taste of everything in this surprisingly diverse park.
It's the only place in NSW where you can see outcrops of the acid volcanic rock rhyodacite. The national park also borders the largest marine park in the state as well as the largest moving coastal sand dune in the southern hemisphere at nearby Worimi Conservation Lands. The Worimi connection to Country is strong and you can learn more about this at Birubi Point Aboriginal Place.
It's an excellent spot for whale watching and offers a range of scenic walks, including the short Wreck Beach walk through coastal angophora forest and the longer Morna Point walk that comes alive with spring wildflowers. As you walk, look for sea eagles in the sky, koalas dozing high in the trees, and echidnas on the ground.
The park's beaches are pretty places for a family barbecue and there are picnic facilities around Anna Bay, Fingal Bay, and Fishermans Bay. Enjoy a swim or snorkel at the beaches patrolled by lifeguards including One Mile Beach, Fingal Bay Beach, or Birubi Beach. Although there are some good places for fishing you'll need to check the marine park zoning before setting out.
However you choose to spend your time in Tomaree National Park, make sure you hike Tomaree Head Summit. It's steep but short and you'll be rewarded with panoramic ocean views over Port Stephens, and Broughton, Cabbage Tree and Boondelbah Islands nature reserves. While you're there, check out the historic gun emplacements, part of Fort Tomaree and built in 1941 as part of Australia's World War II east coast defence system.
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