Seven-Mile-Beach-Nationalpark

The Seven Mile Beach National Park is a national park in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales, 113 kilometers south of Sydney.

This is a particularly beautiful stretch of beach between Nowra and Wollongong. He begins in the south at Shoalhaven Heads and runs approximately 9.5 kilometers ( seven miles ) north to Black Point. Besides an observation deck there are also picnic areas and restrooms.

In the park there are sand dunes with its typical vegetation such as Spinifex Grass, Kasuarinengewächse, various Banksia, Southern Mahogany and Macrozamia. The bird population includes Honeyeater, Crimson Rosella, Kookaburra, ravens and crows, gray fantail and white-bellied sea eagle.

On Seven Mile Beach the Crooked River flows into the sea, can be in the fished. At Blackhead there is a car park and trails that lead to a rock platform, where there are fossils. Collecting and breaking out is prohibited. From the platform a wide variety of fish can be caught.

Accessible is the beach on the Beach Road, a spur road from the road connecting Bomaderry - Shoalhaven Heads - Gerringong.

In Kingsford Smith Memorial Park, the Kingsford Smith Memorial and the Kingsford Smith Memorial Lookout, located at the Headlands Drive and Crooked River Road is located. The monument commemorates the historic first flight of the Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith in 1928 on the Tasman Sea to New Zealand. The memorial consists of a small pillow, a plaque and a flat relief, the plane, the Southern Cross represents. In 1933 the beach in Seven Mile Beach by Charles Kingsford Smith was used as a runway for the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.