Friendly Beaches

Friendly Beaches is a long, undeveloped white-sand beach within Freycinet National Park on Tasmania's east coast, north of Coles Bay in the Glamorgan-Spring Bay municipality. Part of a protected coastal reserve managed by Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service, it is notable for its extensive dunes, clear waters, and natural setting backed by coastal heathland, offering a quieter alternative to Wineglass Bay.

Visitors can expect a long, open stretch of white sand backed by dunes and coastal vegetation, with views of the Tasman Sea and Freycinet Peninsula. The beach is largely undeveloped with no shops or commercial development. Access is via unsealed roads to car parks at the northern (Isaacs Point) and southern (Friendly Beaches) ends, with short tracks to the sand. Activities centre on beach walking, swimming, surfing and camping in a natural national park environment.

Friendly Beaches lies within Freycinet Peninsula, charted by French explorer Nicolas Baudin in 1802. The broader Freycinet area has a long history of Aboriginal occupation and was later used for coastal activities before being reserved as part of Freycinet National Park, one of Tasmania's oldest national parks established in 1916.

The Freycinet Peninsula and Friendly Beaches area is part of the traditional Country of the Oyster Bay Aboriginal people and holds cultural significance for Tasmanian Aboriginal communities as a coastal landscape with long-standing connection to land and sea.