Visitors Centre

The Forster / Tuncurry Visitors Information Centre is open seven days a week and is located in Little Street, Forster, adjacent the lake. You can contact them on (02) 6554 8799 or, toll-free 1800 802 692. It conducts bookings and can provide tourist maps, tide charts and fishing guides, and information regarding local attractions, eco tours, walking tours, accommodation, activities as well as cruises relating to deep-sea fishing, dolphin-watching etc.


The Beaches
The Forster-Tuncurry area has a number of beaches:

Tuncurry Beach, offers surfing with a rock pool, kiosk, picnic area etc. Forster Beach, adjacent the southern breakwater in Forster is patrolled in season. The ocean baths are at its eastern edge. Pebbly Beach is the next beach along, which is another good surfing spot. The Tanks, an unusual rock wall formation where waves spray water into a protected safe swimming area. One Mile Beach is another good surfing location, with a surf club, kiosk, showers and toilets. It is patrolled in season. Burgess Beach is a small and quiet beach accessed by a steep path off Burgess St. It has plenty of small rock cave formations and calm tidal pools to swim in. Bulls Paddock, which is part of Seven Mile Beach, south of Cape Hawke, also features excellent surfing.

The Pebbly Beach Bicentennial Walk
The Pebbly Beach Bicentennial Walk commences off North St, near the ocean baths of Forster Beach. It leads eastwards over Second Head along the foreshore, between Bennetts Head Rd and the ocean, past The Tanks, through Bennetts Head Reserve and south past One Mile Beach to Burgess Beach.


Things To Do And See
There is a vast range of holiday activities that you and your family can really enjoy whilst staying in the Great Lakes region.

Nature and Adventure Sugar Creek Flora Reserve Whoota Lookout Dolphin Watch Amaroo Cruises Boomerang Forest & Bird-watching Tours Tobwabba Environmental & Cultural Heritage Tours Booti Booti National Park Myall Lakes National Park Bachelor State Forest Bulahdelah State Forest

Sport & Recreation

Ton O' Fun Fun Park The Big Buzz Fun Park Kids Spot Great Lakes Aquatic & Leisure Centre Fisherman’s Wharf Dive Centre Action Divers - Scuba Diving Amaroo Cruises Kayak Tours Boomerang Beach Surf School Shalimar Water Ski school Wizards Water Ski School

Deep Sea Fishing Charters Frothy Coffee boatshed Lakeside boat hire, coffee lounge & picnic ground Golf courses at Sandbar, Coomba, Bulahdelah, Forster & Tuncurry Tennis at Forster, Tuncurry, Pacific Palms, Hawks Nest Pacific Palms Recreation Club Pacific Palms Bowling Club Forster Tuncurry Memorial Services Club Forster & Tuncurry Bowling Clubs