Brunswick Heads & Ocean Shores

Brunswick Heads

Just north of Byron Bay, about a 20-minute drive up the Pacific Highway, is one of the gems of the far north coast of New South Wales. Brunswick Heads is one of those places that has survived development, and the superstardom of its more famous neighbour, Byron Bay, to maintain the old-fashioned charm of a river- and seaside town reminiscent of the 1950s.

Brunswick Heads - where the pleasures are simple, the shops are eclectic and the coffee is good!

Click here to go to the Brunswick Heads Simple Pleasures website.

Ocean Shores

Keep going just a few kilometres north of Brunswick Heads on the Pacific Highway and you'll come to the Ocean Shores turnoff.  Here you will find a world-class golf course, a country club, a small shopping centre and great beaches.  There's a lookout from where you can see the fabulous view back south to Cape Byron, and west to Mt Warning.

Ocean Shores is famous for birds, and the flying foxes, or fruit bats, that live in large and noisy colonies.  The bats make a spectacular sight at sunset as they head out to feed on the lush rainforest trees.  Birds such as cranes, herons, swamphens, kites and goshawks are all in abundance.