Yamba Main Beach and lighthouse

Yamba is a relaxed holiday town at the mouth of the Clarence River, with accommodation for every budget, and its Main Beach is the heart of it: a patrolled surf beach, an ocean pool for safer swimming, and a grassy hill above with the Clarence River lighthouse and a lookout for whales and dolphins. Convent Beach, in the next cove, is lovely at sunrise.

Yamba is great for fishing and surfing, with plenty of spots to fish the river estuary from the breakwalls. Pippi Beach is the long, quieter beach to the south. A ferry crosses the river to Iluka, the start of more national park walks.