Ride A17

Ride - A17
BOODEREE NATIONAL PARK:
VISITORS CENTRE - ELLMOOS RD - BHERWERRE BEACH - CAVE BEACH - BOTANIC GARDENS - VISITORS CENTRE
Start Point: Visitors Centre, Booderee
National Park
Map Ref: Nowra ND T14
Ride Finishes: Visitors Centre, Booderee
National Park, Jervis Bay
Total Distance: 23.6 kms
Degree of Difficulty: Medium
Bike Recommended: MTB.
Cautions: No services, water for 18 km,
steep down at 3km
Allow: Two and a half hours

A fairly easy bush and beach ride. A quiet sandy/gravel road follows the eastern shore of St Georges Basin (a number of small, grassed picnic areas on your right) until it reaches the ocean inlet (Sussex Inlet). You can then cross the sand dunes onto Bherwerre Beach and, at low tide, cycle north-east along the Beach to Cave Beach. Join the bitumen and after a visit to the Booderee Botanic Gardens, complete the circuit to the Visitors Centre.

kms
0.0 Leave the Visitors Centre on [ELLMOOS RD]. A steady
climb on gravel which soon levels out. Narrow road, watch for the occasional car.
2.9 Very steep descent for 400 metres.
*8.9 Keep LEFT following [LUMEAH] sign. Road on right goes to private properties, guest houses, Kullindi
Bistro, etc.
**11.3 Turn LEFT at Steel gate, track with sign [SERVICE ROAD - WALKERS ONLY]. Walk along track for 500 metres over sand dunes to beach.
11.8 Bherwerre Beach. At low tide (check tide charts at Visitors Centre, local paper etc) it should be easy to
cycle along near the water line. It is 6 kms to Cave Beach, so if progress is too difficult, return to Ellmoos Rd by the sandy track.

17.3 Cave Beach. Very rough, narrow track leads to Camping area.
17.8 Cave Beach picnic and camping area. Water, toilets here. Good gravel track (climbs steeply) leads to
Parking Area and bitumen road. Climbs to Gardens.
20.5 [BOODEREE BOTANIC GARDENS]. Open daily. Toilets,
picnic areas.
22.6 Turn LEFT onto Jervis Bay Rd.
23.6 Back to Visitors Centre.

Public Toilets: Visitor's Centre, Cave Beach Camping Ground, Botanic Gardens.
Shops/Facilities: Water only at Visitor's Centre, Cave Beach Camping Ground. Kullindi Bistro on Sussex Inlet open during the day in the tourist season.
Bike Shops, emergency spares: Basically Nowra (see p 6) but emergency spares may be found at hardware stores.
Variations on this route/alternative activities:
*8.9 A boat crossing to Sussex Inlet township may be made by arrangement with Sussex Inlet Marine (for a
fee) if the proprietors of "Kullindi" allow access to their jetty.
**11.3 Continue for 500 metres then turn RIGHT onto sandy track. Ride for 200 metres brings you out at "Lone Pine" a grassy picnic area on Sussex Inlet. Return to Visitors Centre by Ellmoos Rd for a gravel/sandy road ride of 24 kms.

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