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Ride
- A01
BERRY
TO SEVEN MILE BEACH NATIONAL PARK AND RETURN
Start
Point: Apex Park Berry
Map Ref: Nowra ND D10.
Ride Finishes: Apex Park Berry.
Total Distance: 15.6 kms.
Degree of Difficulty: Easy
Bike Recommended: Road
Cautions: Squeeze point Broughton Ck
bridge on Princes Hwy at Berry.
Allow: Approximately one and a half
hours.
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A
short sealed road ride from Berry to Seven Mile Beach. After leaving the highway
at Berry, this ride takes you east through very pleasant undulating cattle
farming country to the coast. Your destination, Seven Mile Beach National
Park, boasts a large picnic and recreation area with very good facilities,
and an unpatrolled surf beach.
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kms
0.0 Leave Apex Park on Princes Hwy towards Kiama.
0.3 Caution - squeeze point; no shoulder, narrow lane on Broughton Ck bridge,
but footpath on South side.
0.5 Turn RIGHT into [TANNERY RD] [SEVEN MILE BEACH 6].
1.3 David Berry Hospital (Rehabilitation, Pallative Care -
no emergency) on left.
1.5 Straight through - follow [BEACH RD] sign.
3.2 Harley Hill Cemetery on left - dates from about 1901.
7.2 [STOP SIGN] - cross Gerroa Rd straight into [SEVEN
MILE BEACH NATIONAL PARK].
7.6 Park information, picnic grounds, electric BBQs,
water, toilets.
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7.8
Surf beach parking area, change rooms, water, toilets,
shower.
Return to Berry by the same route.
15.6 Back at Apex Park, Berry.
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Public
Toilets/water: Apex Park main street, rail station in Berry, Seven Mile
Beach National Park
Shops/phone/facilities: Berry. Bike Shops, emergency spares: Closest at
Bomaderry - see details p.6 Variations on this route/alternative activities:
1. From Seven Mile Beach, ride to Shoalhaven Heads along
the beach (possible at low tide on a mountain bike) or
on Gerroa Rd (flat, wide bitumen but a busy 100 km
road), and then return to Berry on Coolangatta Rd (total
return trip approx 18 km).
2. Visit the Coolangatta Estate Winery near Shoalhaven
Heads (part of the first white settlement on the South
Coast founded by Alexander Berry) for wine and cheese
tasting and/or lunch.
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