Snapper Point & Durras Mountain, Murramarang National Park, NSW
Snapper Point is a headland with impressive cliffs and rock platforms; and nearby Durras Mountain offers partial views over the coast.
We originally intended to do the Pretty Beach to Pebbly Beach circuit, but set off from the wrong beach (Merry Beach), and came across the rather impressive headland called Snapper Point. This has tall striated cliffs and large rock platforms, and is worth a visit. You can’t continue around the headland though, so we returned to Merry Beach and climbed Durras Mountain to the large water tank at the summit. Although somewhat obscured by rejuvenating native vegetation, there are still partial views of the coast.
Track Notes
We visited Snapper Point cliffs, (dotted line – I’m not sure how far we went), then backtracked and visited Durras Mountain.
An early start. On Merry Beach walking south towards Snapper Point.
Snapper Point framing a quintessentially cloudless Australian sky. You can just see my wife down below for a bit of scale.
Lots of spray. I liked these striated cliffs. Sparkly.
Tall forest on Durras Mountain. The views from Durras Mountain, which used to be farmland, are now mostly obscured by vegetation. Looking north east. Pretty Beach, where we meant to start.
A viewing platform shows the route south that we did about 6 months later. I think in the late afternoon we walked down the coast a bit to check it out. This is probably the view back up towards Pretty Beach and Snapper Point.
