Show off your town without playing tour guide.

Your people are coming to Pacific Palms. Here’s how to show family or friends a genuinely good time with less stress for you.

Pacific Palms is the kind of place that has a different beach for every mood. Feeling adventurous? Blueys Beach. Feeling gentle? Elizabeth Beach. Feeling like you want to hike 800 metres through bush to find a completely empty cove? That’s Shelly Beach, and yes, it’s worth every step.

The challenge of hosting here isn’t finding things to do. It’s choosing between them.

Start the day right

Blueys Beach is the morning. Coffee and breakfast from one of the cafes on the village strip: Kembali or Drift. Then a walk along the sand while the surfers are doing what surfers do and the light is doing what the light does here, which is exceptional.

The views south to Seal Rocks on a clear morning are the kind of thing you take a photo of and then realise no photo will ever do it justice.

The Pacific Palms Market runs on the last Sunday of every month and on extra dates during school holidays. It’s the social event of the village calendar and the place to stock up on local produce, handmade things and conversation.

Send them off to explore

Booti Booti National Park is the natural anchor of Pacific Palms and it rewards every visit. The Booti Hill Walking Track climbs to panoramic views over Wallis Lake and the coast, the kind of view that makes everyone stop mid-sentence and just look.

Elizabeth Beach, inside the park, is the most popular swimming spot in Pacific Palms for good reason.

Whoota Whoota Lookout in Wallingat National Park is thirty minutes inland and delivers views across the canopy that feel genuinely remote despite being very accessible.

The Sugar Creek Road drive through Wallingat is one of the most beautiful short drives in the region, dense rainforest closing in on both sides with the filtered light doing extraordinary things at any time of day.

One Square Gallery at Blueys Beach is an outdoor street art concept that surprises people who weren’t expecting to find contemporary art in a coastal village. Worth a wander.

Trisha’s on Blueys opens when Trisha is in her studio, which is the most Pacific Palms approach to gallery hours imaginable and entirely charming.

End the day together

Pacific Palms keeps evenings simple and that’s the right call. At Mobys Beachside Retreat you’ll find Sips At Mobys poolside. It does the job of making dinner feel like an occasion without requiring anyone to change out of their beach clothes, or at least not dramatically.

For guests staying longer

Seal Rocks is thirty minutes south and contains, among other things, Number One Beach, which lives up to its name in a way that very few things with inflated names actually do.

Forster is thirty minutes north. The drive from Pacific Palms to Forster offer glimpses of Wallis Lake and a coastal stretch from Tiona. It’s worth stopping at Santa Barbara picnic area for a view of Seven Mile Beach… it seems a million miles from anywhere.

One last thing

The name Pacific Palms comes from the majestic cabbage tree palms that grow throughout the area.

Worth pointing out to guests when they arrive. It’s the kind of small piece of local knowledge that makes you look like you know things, which, as a host, is exactly the impression you want to leave.

You bring the people. Pacific Palms will handle the rest.