Seven Mile Beach National Park is about a 50 minute drive from Sanctuary Point, and so we decided to go there for a visit and see if the beach there really was seven miles long.

It turned out that the offical length of the beach was 12.5km (7.8 miles) and so it’s actually more like eight mile beach. The beach is slightly famous because it was used in 1933 as the runway for the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.

We started from Beach Road car park and we walked a section of coastal bushland before heading along the beach to Gerroa – a small town at the far end of the beach connected by a footbridge over the Crooked River.

After a bit of a look around Gerroa we walked back the same way that we came.