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Forresters Beach

Forresters Beach is a coastal suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia between Terrigal and Bateau Bay.

Forresters Beach
Forresters Beach · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Forresters Beach is a coastal suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia between Terrigal and Bateau Bay. It forms part of the Central Coast Council local government area. Forresters Beach's reef breaks are well known to surfers. Its name comes from Robert Forrester who purchased 50 acres (200,000 m2) of land in 1861.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Forresters Beach

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Wyrrabalong National Park

    The Wyrrabalong National Park is a coastal national park that is located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 620-hectare national park consists of two sections; the northern section consists of approximately 480 hectares and covers a substantial area of the peninsula between The Entrance and Norah Head as well as Terilbah and Pelican Islands within Tuggerah Lake.

    1.2 km · National Park in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wamberal Lagoon

    Wamberal Lagoon, an intermittently closed intermediate saline coastal lagoon, is located on the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamberal Lagoon is located between the beachside settlements of Forresters Beach and Wamberal, and adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, about 87 kilometres north of Sydney.

    3.8 km · lake in Australia · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Forresters Beach

Airports
Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 66 km · Newcastle (NTL), 76 km
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Forresters Beach
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · A$12–16
  • Williamtown → Forresters Beach
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · A$12–17
  • Gold Coast → Forresters Beach
    630 km · quickest by air, 7h 42m · A$340–490
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Forresters Beach

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Forresters Beach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Palm Beach & Ettalong take the ferry to Wagstaffe.
  • Get aroundSome of the trails are suitable for off road bicycles, but not all.

From Wikivoyage: Bouddi National Park, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    925 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,159 km
  3. 03
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,327 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,888 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,250 km

If you know how people move in Forresters Beach – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Forresters Beach

Forresters Beach is 10 km from Central Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bateau Baysuburb of Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia2.9 km