North of Byron Bay
Heading north from Byron Bay you will pass the idealic community of Ocean Shores before arriving at delightful Brunswick Heads, a small township at the mouth of the Brunswick River. The stretch of coastline between Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads is almost an unbroken stretch of white sandy beach, most of which is almost desterted. Brunswick Heads is a charming town with its own fleet of fishing trawlers which unload their catch daily onto the wharf just inside the breakwater. Needless to say, seafood is a great buy at Brunswick Heads and the reasonably priced restaurants serve up sumptuous dishes prepared from the freshest lobsters, crabs, prawns, and fish. The Brunswick River is an important waterway particularly from a conservation viewpoint, and there are eco-canoeing trips along its course which take in some of the spectacular birdlife and magnificent mangrove ecosystem.