Nora Creina Bay

The bay at the end of the road

About 15 kilometres south of Robe, an unsealed road runs out to Nora Creina, one of the prettiest and least developed corners of the Limestone Coast. The bay curls into a near-perfect horseshoe of powder-white sand, sheltered by low headlands and reef, with a scatter of around sixty beach shacks that have been passed down through families for generations.

The sheltered inner bay offers calm swimming on most days, while the reefs outside draw divers and fishers. There are no shops and no facilities - that is rather the point - and parts of the surrounding land are private, including tracks beyond the settlement, so respect gates and signs and leave the place as you found it.

The coast between Robe and Nora Creina is wild calcified dune country, much of it within Little Dip Conservation Park, and experienced four-wheel-drivers often link the two on sand tracks. For everyone else, the gravel road in is perfectly manageable with care - and the first sight of the bay is worth every corrugation.