Tomaree Head Summit Walk, Port StephensCredit: Destination NSW
Get a bird’s-eye view of this magnificent coastline by tackling the Tomaree Head Summit Walk. Set aside a couple of hours for the 2.2km return trek, which is well worth the effort: from the top, 161 metres above the entrance to Port Stephens, you’ll get panoramic views up and down the coast.
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Inspo for your next NSW Escape
Tomaree Head Summit Walk, Port Stephens Credit: Destination NSW
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It’s never too late to create a new routine – one filled with such extraordinary experiences that you can’t be ground down by the daily grind.
Whether you have a few hours, a weekend or a week, there’s a life-affirming escape hatch for everyone in New South Wales. Feel a deeper sense of freedom and awe as you explore new adventures, with everything from the Blue Mountains’ captivating canyons to Jervis Bay’s crystal clear beaches that will leave you energised.
Headless Horseman Sculpture, Wanganella Credit: Destination NSW
Heading north on the Cobb Highway, cross the Billabong Creek at Wanganella. Stop for refreshments at the Royal Mail Hotel, the last remaining coaching inn on the stock route, in Booroorban.
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Headless Horseman Sculpture, Wanganella Credit: Destination NSW
Heading north on the Cobb Highway, cross the Billabong Creek at Wanganella. Stop for refreshments at the Royal Mail Hotel, the last remaining coaching inn on the stock route, in Booroorban.
Ebor Falls, Ebor
Ebor Falls, Ebor located in the New England region. A great stop-off between the coast and Armidale along Waterfall Way, Ebor Falls offers spectacular waterfall views, scenic lookouts and a picnic area.Watch the Guy Fawkes River plunging 100 metres over two waterfalls at Ebor Falls. Three lookout platforms along the edge of the gorge - upper falls, lower falls and valley view - give spectacular views out into the rugged gorge country.
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Ebor Falls, Ebor
Ebor Falls, Ebor located in the New England region. A great stop-off between the coast and Armidale along Waterfall Way, Ebor Falls offers spectacular waterfall views, scenic lookouts and a picnic area.Watch the Guy Fawkes River plunging 100 metres over two waterfalls at Ebor Falls. Three lookout platforms along the edge of the gorge - upper falls, lower falls and valley view - give spectacular views out into the rugged gorge country.
Murray Darling Junction, Wentworth Credit: Destination NSW
Australia’s longest river, the Murray flows from the Snowy Mountains down to the town of Albury, and joins the Darling River in Wentworth, in the far southwest of New South Wales.
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Murray Darling Junction, Wentworth Credit: Destination NSW
Australia’s longest river, the Murray flows from the Snowy Mountains down to the town of Albury, and joins the Darling River in Wentworth, in the far southwest of New South Wales.
Blackheath, Blue Mountains Credit: Tyson Mayr
There are countless bushwalking tracks dotted throughout the Blue Mountains, ranging from easy strolls leading to lookouts to longer walks such as the Grand Canyon Track, a 6.3km loop that starts at Evans Lookout in Blackheath and passes Beauchamp Falls and Greaves Creek.
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Blackheath, Blue Mountains Credit: Tyson Mayr
There are countless bushwalking tracks dotted throughout the Blue Mountains, ranging from easy strolls leading to lookouts to longer walks such as the Grand Canyon Track, a 6.3km loop that starts at Evans Lookout in Blackheath and passes Beauchamp Falls and Greaves Creek.
Canola Trail, Temora Credit: Destination NSW
Follow The Canola Trail to explore idyllic country towns and villages – including Junee, Temora and Coolamon – visit wineries and restaurants, and learn about the area’s history, all the while surrounded by blooms.
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Canola Trail, Temora Credit: Destination NSW
Follow The Canola Trail to explore idyllic country towns and villages – including Junee, Temora and Coolamon – visit wineries and restaurants, and learn about the area’s history, all the while surrounded by blooms.
Sea Cliff Bridge, Clifton
The 140km Grand Pacific Drive, one of Australia’s most scenic coastal routes includes highlights such as the Sea Cliff Bridge, snaking out over the Pacific Ocean for 655m.
Sea Cliff Bridge, Clifton
The 140km Grand Pacific Drive, one of Australia’s most scenic coastal routes includes highlights such as the Sea Cliff Bridge, snaking out over the Pacific Ocean for 655m.
Glenworth Valley Outdoor Adventures, Glenworth Valley Credit: Destination NSW
Glenworth Valley Outdoor Adventures, 15 minutes south of Gosford, the gateway to the Central Coast, has an excellent range of outdoor activities on 1,200 glorious hectares. Saddle up for a horse ride through spectacular countryside with guided rides, free-range rides for experts and pony rides for kids aged three to 12. You can also tackle quad biking, abseiling, kayaking and laser skirmish.
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Glenworth Valley Outdoor Adventures, Glenworth Valley Credit: Destination NSW
Glenworth Valley Outdoor Adventures, 15 minutes south of Gosford, the gateway to the Central Coast, has an excellent range of outdoor activities on 1,200 glorious hectares. Saddle up for a horse ride through spectacular countryside with guided rides, free-range rides for experts and pony rides for kids aged three to 12. You can also tackle quad biking, abseiling, kayaking and laser skirmish.
Fossicking, Glen Innes Credit: Destination NSW
The Fossickers Way passes through nine towns, including country-music capital Tamworth, and Glen Innes, renowned for some of the richest gem and mineral fields in the country.
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Fossicking, Glen Innes Credit: Destination NSW
The Fossickers Way passes through nine towns, including country-music capital Tamworth, and Glen Innes, renowned for some of the richest gem and mineral fields in the country.
Blenheim Beach, Vincentia Credit: Destination NSW
Jervis Bay boasts powdery coves, sapphire seas and resident dolphins — cruises to spot these marine mammals, along with whales during migration, depart from Huskisson. Discover some of the most blinding beaches in the world on the White Sands Walk, a 90-minute loop linking Vincentia and Greenfield Beach.
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Blenheim Beach, Vincentia Credit: Destination NSW
Jervis Bay boasts powdery coves, sapphire seas and resident dolphins — cruises to spot these marine mammals, along with whales during migration, depart from Huskisson. Discover some of the most blinding beaches in the world on the White Sands Walk, a 90-minute loop linking Vincentia and Greenfield Beach.
Nettleton's First Shaft Lookout, Lightning Ridge Credit: Destination NSW
An hour south of Lightning Ridge, the town of Walgett is a former paddle steamer port, and the start of the 950km Darling River Run outback drive.
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Nettleton's First Shaft Lookout, Lightning Ridge Credit: Destination NSW
An hour south of Lightning Ridge, the town of Walgett is a former paddle steamer port, and the start of the 950km Darling River Run outback drive.
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Mulwala Water Ski Club, MulwalaCredit: Destination NSW
Mulwala Water Ski Club located in the Riverina Murray region in Mulwala, offers an outdoor bar and casual relaxed dining overlooking Lake Mulwala. Learn to water ski on a world-class, private, twin lake the Max Kirwan Ski Park.
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Cool off with an adventure: NSW is a watersports playground
Mulwala Water Ski Club, Mulwala Credit: Destination NSW
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Hot sands, wild rivers, bays with towers of coral and waves that curl like a rockabilly quiff – NSW is a paradise for adventure on and under the water. For adrenaline-chasers, there are world-class waves and whitewater runs, foils and jet boats built for speed, and reefs home to sharks and turtles. For the quiet adventurers, try paddleboard expeditions, fishing for rainbow trout and bass in pristine rivers, and colourful snorkelling spots.
Your next adrenaline hit
Surfing may be the famous action-hero of the NSW watersports scene, but the state’s rivers, lakes, bays and beaches also host a huge diversity of aquatic adventures to get the heart racing. Take in Sydney Harbour’s icons, while spinning, splashing and thundering past in a jet boat with Oz Jet Boating or Thunder Jet Boat. In Western Sydney, Penrith is a hub for adventure. Penrith Whitewater Stadium, purpose-built for the 2000 Olympics, is uniquely set up for both beginner paddling and intense raft adventures, as well as kayak courses where you can test yourself against Olympic times; Cables Wake Park teaches you to wakeboard via zipline (jumps and obstacles included); and Jet Pack Adventures lets you feel like a water-powered Iron Man.
In Brooklyn, on the Hawkesbury River, Jet Ski Safaris will take you around the bends of the river at 30 knots, while Fliteschool Manly and OzFoiling (with multiple locations on the Mid North Coast) will teach you how to cruise the coastline via eFoil, a motorised surfboard that glides above the water like an elegant seabird. Outside of Sydney, on the Murray River, encounter one of the greatest and oldest waterski clubs in the world at Mulwala Water Ski Club.
Find a wave
With reliable breaks on some of the world’s most picturesque beaches, NSW is a premium spot on the international surf circuit. Surfers with their own board and years of experience behind them can find world-class waves all up the coast while newbies can join in on a surfing lesson, all you have to do is choose which one and which beach. You can also practice on a perfectly shaped, perfectly reliable wave (with multiple options suitable for beginners or experts) at URBNSURF, Olympic Park’s surf park, and finish off with a meal at RAFI, the onsite Applejack-run restaurant and bar that overlooks the waves.
URBNSURF Sydney Credit: Applejack_Sandy’s_URBNSURF Sydney
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URBNSURF Sydney Credit: Applejack_Sandy’s_URBNSURF Sydney
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Oz Jet Boating, Sydney Harbour Credit: Destination NSW
Experience the incredible speed of the red shark boats as they blast across Sydney harbour at high speed with Oz Jet Boating.
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Oz Jet Boating, Sydney Harbour Credit: Destination NSW
Experience the incredible speed of the red shark boats as they blast across Sydney harbour at high speed with Oz Jet Boating.
Explore NSW’s coral reefs
The pristine, ecologically rich seas of NSW have seen the development of 10 protected marine parks covering more than 100,000 square kilometres, offering a haven to wildly diverse range of sea life. Beyond those areas, in the harbour and the bays of the coastal cities, there are also vibrant ecosystems ripe for snorkel or scuba dive trips. Self-guided snorkelling can be done in most places along the coast and, provided you have the equipment and training, so can diving. Or learn the ropes with a tour. Woebegone Expeditions and Courses will teach you how to explore the reefs of the South Coast with safe, freediving techniques; Region X Snorkel Tours has you jumping off a kayak with a snorkel around Batemans Bay; and Ecotreasures fits in a headland walk between time in the aquatic reserve around Manly. For new divers, you can explore the lower North Coast with Jetty Dive Centre or the tropical far North Coast with Cooly Eco Adventures. While Sydney Underwater Scooters will set you up with a handheld swim-assister and show you the clear waters and underwater fauna of Sydney’s Gordon’s Bay.
Paddling sunrise to sunset
Every river, bay and lake has a different scene and a different story, and cruising on a kayak, canoe or stand-up paddleboard (SUP) lets you discover at your own pace. NSW is also full of explorers and local experts ready to guide you along the way. In Sydney, Sydney Harbour Kayaks and Sydney by Kayak will introduce you to the harbour at its multicolour best with dawn and dusk paddles. Manly Kayak Centre has both hire and guided options for kayaks and SUP, as well as giving you the opportunity to try your hand at SUPBALL, which is like polo but replaces the horse with a SUP. Cronulla SUP and Balmoral Paddlesurf let you explore less famous, but no less beautiful, beaches of Sydney’s south and north respectively.
On the Sapphire Coast combine your next river adventure with a story, like on Navigate Expeditions’ Aboriginal Culture Tour, where you journey into the land’s Indigenous heritage, or a Kayak and Shuck Tour where you visit the oyster farms. On the North Coast, social enterprise and SUP tour guides Wajaana Yaam Adventure Tours offers cultural eco-tourism on a paddleboard around the pristine waters of Solitary Island Marine Park. Not far away in The Tweed, Watersports Guru offers SUP lessons and hire, allowing you to cruise the waters Cudgen Creek while taking in the local birdlife – if you’re lucky you may even see a pod of dolphins.
Reel in a new experience
With pristine rivers and wild oceans, NSW is a dream for fishing for both newbies and those looking for the next big catch. Out on the oceans of the South Coast Kiama Charter Service will help you pull in your first deep-sea fish (go for blue-eye trevalla, gemfish or hapuka). While Port Macquarie Fishing Charters, Reel Ocean Adventures (in Tuncurry) and Evans Head Deep Sea Fishing Charters, provide the boats, deep-sea equipment and vibes on the North Coast. Inland, learn traditional yabbying in the bush at Narrabri Fish Farm, or set up your own line on NSW’s most epic jetties at Coffs Harbour, Lake Macquarie and Lake St Clair in the Hunter Valley. If you know the ways of a fly fisher, the Snowy Mountains and Blue Mountains are the hot spots.
Kayaking, Sydney Harbour Credit: Destination NSW
Friends enjoying a day of kayaking on Sydney Harbour.
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Kayaking, Sydney Harbour Credit: Destination NSW
Friends enjoying a day of kayaking on Sydney Harbour.
Navigate Expeditions, Kalaru Credit: Destination NSW
Guests on a walking tour with Navigate Expeditions in Kalaru
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Navigate Expeditions, Kalaru Credit: Destination NSW
Guests on a walking tour with Navigate Expeditions in Kalaru