Angourie is a coastal village in the

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, Australia. Angourie is located 5 km south of

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, and is at the northern tip of

Yuraygir National Park Yuraygir is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, located northeast of Sydney. It was created in 1980, a result of the merger and enlargement of two national parks, Angourie and Red Rock National Parks, both of which had been establis ...

. Towns that surround Angourie are Yamba and

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In popular culture

Angourie was featured in the 1971 surfing film, ''

Morning of the Earth ''Morning of the Earth'' is a 1971 classic surf film by Alby Falzon and David Elfick. The film's soundtrack was produced by G. Wayne Thomas and included music and songs by noted Australian music acts Tamam Shud, John J. Francis, Brian Cadd, Mike ...

''. Most of the country scenes were photographed around Angourie and on the

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mainly from

Crescent Head, New South Wales Crescent Head is a town on the Tasman Sea coast, 340 km north-northeast of Sydney, in Kempsey Shire, New South Wales, Australia. At the 2011 census, Crescent Head had a population of 1,586 people. Its major industries include tourism and ...

Cape Byron Cape Byron is the easternmost point of the mainland of Australia, located in New South Wales. It is about east of the town of Byron Bay, New South Wales and projects into the Pacific Ocean at 28.6335° S, 153.6383° E. A lighthouse is situated th ...

area.

Attractions

Angourie Beach was declared a National Surfing Reserve in 2007, the second site in Australia to be recognized for its significance to recreational surfing and is often visited by the world's best surfers. Also of interest, Angourie Point is world renowned for the quality of its waves for surfing. Angourie beach is also known for Spookies which are short, very hollow right point breaks that occur just to the north. A local attraction of note is the Angourie Pools; a group of blue and green freshwater pools created when the old quarries hit underground springs. The story goes that the miners working on the quarries went home one night and came back the next morning to find the quarries filled with water. The pools are less than 20 metres from the ocean, and the two bodies of water are separated by mounds of quarried rock and earth. The pools are deep, approximately 15–20 metres, and are a very popular swimming spot. Yuraygir National Park, adjacent to Angourie, is considered to have one of the most spectacular coastal walks in the state.

Gallery

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