Dunbogan Beach is 9.3 km long and extends southwest between Camden Head and Diamond Head with the last kilometre curving round face the east then northeast. The northern section of the beach is accessible on the Camden Head road and for 2 km south via the Nursery road. A car park and Hamey Lookout is located on Camden Head and provides panoramic view down the beach (Fig. 4.99). A few houses back the beach 1 km south of the head. The main beach was mined for rutile in the 1980s but is now in a relatively natural state and a natural foredune runs the length of the beach. The southern Diamond Head end of the beach lies in Crowdy Head National Park. Car access is available at the Blackbutts, Cheese Tree and Geebung picnic areas as well as at the southern Diamond Head Rest Area where there is a beachfront camping area. Most of the beach receives waves averaging 1.6 m which combine with the fine sand to maintain a continuous double bar system, with rips cutting the inner bar every 300-400 m and more widely spaced rips cutting the outer bar and a permanent rip against Camden Head. At Diamond Head the waves are reduced slightly and the outer bar merges with the inner, however beach rips remain together with a permanent rip against the head (Fig. 4.100). Beach NSW 182(S) is a small pocket of sand located on the northern side of Diamond Head and wedged in between two eastward protruding arms of rhyolite. The small sandy high tide beach is bordered and fronted by rocks and reefs, and receives usually low waves. It can be accessed round the rocks at low tide and from a steep descent off the walking track. The 3 km long Diamond Head walking track commences at the camping area and continues around the head to the southern Indian Head rest area. read more

Beach Length: 9.35km