One of New South Wales best-kept secrets is the amazing Light to Light Walk situated on the Sapphire Coast near Eden in New South Wales. This scenic self-guided 30km walk winds its way from the historic Lighthouse at Boyds Tower to the charming 1883 Lighthouse at Green Cape. This dramatic landscape is a kaleidoscope of contrasts from the striking 320 million years old red rocky outcrops to coastal forests. Far from clinging to the coast, the walk meanders across the invisible boundaries that separate one set of plant habitats from another. As if stepping through a door, heathland gives away to tall open forests. Thick groves of tea tree or paperbark trees emerge into open coastal banksia woodlands or imposing forests of Woolly Butt.
Designed by Life's An Adventure
In addition to track notes and maps our guests will receive access to a Walking App designed exclusively for Life’s An Adventure guests. Created by our experienced guides this fully interactive App include easy-to-follow walking notes with gps tracking, photos at track junctions and points of interest enroute as well as information about the natural environment. The app also calculate give average walking times, distances for each section and even optional side-trips as well as short and long options for each day’s walk. Customers will also be given the information on the google map platform, so each waypoint on each walk will be triggered when they arrive at that point, whether it be a fork in the track or point of interest. This gives real time feedback so you can see exactly where you are.
Your overnight bags transported for you
Our self-guided walks are Pack-Free. Enjoy the freedom to walk with a small day pack carrying as little as your lunch, and water. Walking without the burden of a heavy pack makes all the difference to your enjoyment of the new landscapes you are exploring.
close to the trail
On your self-guided walking experience, you will stay in 4 star accommodation at Eden close to the trail. This waterfront accommodation on a large estate with immaculate gardens offers stunning coastal views, well-appointed ensuite rooms and a fantastic restaurant.
featuring local Produce
During your walk enjoy a superb two-course dinner in the hotel restaurant each evening featuring fresh regional specialities. Menus include the highest quality prime beef, lamb and fresh local seafood as well as vegetables grown in the hotel’s kitchen garden.
For extra safety
For peace of mind and safety all our guests have the option of hiring an emergency personal locator beacon to take with you when walking. This extra safety measure will give you peace of mind should the unexpected occur.
Discover on your own
Self-guided walking holidays offer flexibility and freedom to discover at your own pace. Our track notes are created by our experienced guides who know these tracks back to front, simply follow our walking app or track notes as you meander along the track on your own journey of discovery.
Optional hire of an EPIRB/PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) is available if required at an additional cost.
Choice to drive yourself to Eden or fly to Merimbula where you will be met at the airport and transferred to your accommodation in Eden. Enjoy the next 3 nights at this wonderful boutique 4-star property set on the waterfront offering stunning views across the bay. The rest of the day is at leisure to walk along the beachfront or explore the properties sprawling lawns and lush gardens. Tonight enjoy a superb two-course dinner in the restaurant.
TRANSFERS: Our driver will provide transfer to and from the trail today. Morning 25-minute transfer to the start of the trail. Afternoon 25-minute transfer to your accommodation
WALK GRADE: 13.2km. 4.5 hours walking with breaks. Medium grade.
WALK ITINERARY: After breakfast this morning our driver will drop you off at the start of your walk. Begin your coastal trek at the northern end overlooking Twofold bay from Boyds Tower and admire this historic sandstone building originally intended to be a lighthouse. Boyd’s Tower was constructed in the late 1840s as part of an ambitious plan by Benjamin Boyd to establish Eden as a major commercial port. He was however denied official approval to use the tower as a lighthouse and the main use for this tower came from shore based whales of the coastline. You pass open grassy areas where you may see eastern grey kangaroos grazing. Hike through coastal forests and heath and across red-rocked platforms. View headlands along the way from where you might be able to see a lighthouse. Follow the trail and lookout for seals and seabirds year-round, or migrating whales in season, particularly between September and November. Finally head to the pristine Saltwater Creek Beach to cool down with a swim or surf. After your walk you will be met by your driver who will transfer you back to your charming accommodation. Tonight enjoy a 2 course dinner in the restaurant featuring fresh local produce.
TRANSFERS: Our driver will provide transfers from the accommodation to and from the trail today.
WALK GRADE: 9km. 3 hours with breaks. Medium grade.
WALK ITINERARY: After breakfast, your driver will drop you back at Bittangabee Bay to continue your walk on the track. You will be taking in stunning and ever-changing views passing banksia woodlands, sheltered coves and red-rock platforms. Explore Bittangabee Bay Ruins and the remnants of incomplete structures dating back to the 1840s. In the 1840s, the Imlay Brothers used Bittangabee Bay as a base for some of the early shore-based whaling operations undertaken in and around Twofold Bay. You also pass vital eco-systems such as heathlands which are home to a remarkable diversity of plant and animal species, many of which occur only in this habitat. In spring and early summer, heathland areas come alive with an array of honeyeaters and other nectar-feeding birds. After your walk, your driver will meet you and return you to the accommodation for a relaxing dinner in the restaurant.
TRANSFERS: Our driver will provide transfers from the accommodation to and from the trail today.
WALK GRADE: 7kms. 3 hours walking one way with breaks. Medium grade.
ITINERARY: After a leisurely breakfast, our driver will return you to finish the final section of the walk towards Green Cape Light station your final destination. Follow a trail that was traditionally travelled by lightkeepers taking supplies that were off-loaded at Bittangabee Bay; look closely for remnants of the old horse-drawn tram track. You’ll find a walkway to the lookout at the tip of Green Cape where you can stop to look for dolphins and take in stunning views across Disaster Bay. Enjoy plenty of good vantage points to look for whales migrating along the coastline – especially during autumn and spring. Watch out also for seals or seabirds plunging into the ocean waters for a feed of fish. If you’re lucky you may also spot a sea eagle riding the thermal air currents in slow majestic circles, or hovering low over the water before dropping down to catch fish or waterfowl. The Green Cape lighthouse commenced operations in 1883 as part of a plan by Francis Hixson to ‘light the coast like a street with lamps’. This was an especially important development in an age when coastal shipping offered the main communication and supply line between isolated coastal communities and ports such as Sydney and Melbourne. At 29m tall, it was the largest mass concrete structure built in NSW up until that time. Today the light’s operation is fully automated and the NPWS manages the site. Afterwards your walk your driver will meet you and either drop you back to your accommodation to collect your car or will drop you at Merimbula airport to catch a flight home.
With self-guided walks we run scheduled departures twice a month from September to the end of April.
Departures start Monday and end Thursday – for those wanting weekend departures please book our GUIDED walks which depart regularly on Thursday nights.
(There are a few exceptions for the upcoming season on 12 Sept 2022).
We do not run self-guided walks from May to August due to shorter days making it hard to complete walks in daylight hours.
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