Hat Head

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Escape the 21st century…

Groups of friends disappear around Korogoro Point at Hat Head for a days fishing, already imagining the taste of fresh barbecued fish. Just 5.25 nautical miles offshore they reach the Continental Shelf, where tailor, bream, jewfish, drummer, Spanish mackerel and marlin cruise the cobalt abyss. 

In the pleasure craft's wake, eager water babies don snorkels and float across crystal-clear Korogoro Creek to marvel at colourful fish. Others ride boogie boards down the creek then catch slight ripples back into shore. When the swell is right, good right-hand waves wrap around the point but mostly the sheltered cove is perfect for paddling youngsters, swimming laps and kayaking.

Hat Head’s relaxed village is nestled in emerald-green Hat Head National Park and offers holidaymakers shady picnic areas beside the creek or beach, a bowling club, tennis courts, a post office, and takeaway food stores stocking all your holiday needs. Accommodation ranges from holiday houses to units and shady campgrounds and cabins.

The National Park’s moderate walking trails hug the coast and wind through coastal heaths, rainforests, wetlands, eucalypt woodlands and one of the largest ‘live’ sand dune systems in New South Wales. Connors Track leads to spectacular headlands and secluded beaches at The Gap, Connors Beach, Third Beach and Kemps Corner. Black swans, egrets, herons, spoonbills and ducks patrol the wetlands. Fantails, wrens, honeyeaters and quails dart about the heath. Endangered glossy-black cockatoos crunch fruit in she-oak trees. Hawks, falcons, ospreys and eagles soar overhead. Red-necked wallabies, swamp wallabies, grey kangaroos and marsupial mice forage below. In season, migrating whales perform acrobatic displays offshore. 

The Dunghutti Nation have fished and swum at Hat Head for thousands of years. Hat Head National Park still has several areas of cultural significance, including legendary grounds, burial sites, ceremonial grounds, shell middens and campsites. 

In Hat Head, time is on your side so you don’t have to rush. Whether it is a seaside holiday or the chance to wake up to a babbling creek and bird song, Hat Head is ready and waiting to soothe weary souls and relax frazzled nerves.

Quick Tips around Hat Head:

Maps for walking trails are available at the Kempsey Visitor Information Centre (VIC) on the Pacific highway at South Kempsey, the South West Rocks VIC in Ocean Avenue or Trial Bay Gaol office at Arakoon.

Find kangaroos at the Hungry Head Rest Area.

Patrolled Beaches: Hat Head Beach is patrolled on weekends from the last weekend in September until ANZAC Day as well as during the spring school holidays and Christmas holiday period.