Is Cave Beach the best beach in Jervis Bay?
If you prefer surfing to swimming, Cave Beach might just be the best beach in Jervis Bay. Along with the surf breaks and white sand, there’s also the cave and the kangaroos.
Cave Beach, Jervis Bay, is absolutely spectacular. It’d take a heart of flint to suggest otherwise. In fact, there’s a strong argument for saying that Cave Beach is the best beach in Jervis Bay.
Before you can make that judgement, however, you have to get there. And that involves leaving New South Wales for the Jervis Bay Territory.
6 Jervis Bay experiences worth booking now
- See the dolphins and lounge above the water on a dolphin cruise with boom netting.
- Explore the beaches, spotting wildlife on the way, with a sea kayaking tour.
- Watch sunset on the beach, then explore the heavens with an astrophysicist on an evening stargazing experience.
- Admire the migrating humpbacks on a whale-watching cruise.
- Try cycling on the sand on a Culburra Beach fat-biking tour.
- Discover the lesser-visited hideaways on a hidden secrets cruise.
Where is Cave Beach?
Cave Beach is part of the Booderee National Park, which makes up most of the Jervis Bay Territory. It’s on the southern side of the Territory, at the end of the Cave Beach Road.
The Cave Beach car park is on the clifftop, and you need to walk to the beach itself. There’s a choice of heading down the 1.2km Cave Beach Access Track or taking the slightly shorter route through the Cave Beach Campground.
Kangaroos at Cave Beach, Jervis Bay
Either way, you’ve got a good chance of seeing kangaroos en route. They like hanging out here.
The beach gets its name from the tall, rocky cave at the western end. Visitors can venture inside the Cave Beach cave, as the sandy floor slowly gives way to rock and sunshine to the dark. Kids will love scrambling over the nearby rocks, too.
Surfing at Cave Beach, Jervis Bay
The beach itself is just under a kilometre long, and is made up of the white sand that Jervis Bay is famous for. However, it is not on the bay itself, which means that the usual calm swimming conditions are traded in for often grandiose surf.
The best Cave Beach surf breaks are generally about 200 metres off the shore, near the rocks at the western side of the beach.
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The best beach in Jervis Bay?
But is Cave Beach the best beach in Jervis Bay? Well, it’s certainly not the longest – that honour goes to Callala Beach. And your assessment of quality will largely depend on your preference for surf or safe swimming. If you want to surf, Cave Beach is probably the winner.
Other Jervis Bay beaches worth checking out include Greenfield Beach, Blenheim Beach and Hyams Beach. There’s also Iluka Beach and Murrays Beach elsewhere in the Jervis Bay Territory, and Currarong Beach at the northern end of the bay.
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This article came as a result of a Melbourne to Sydney coastal road trip in March/ April 2022. This trip was supported by Tourism Australia.