It is no secret Kiwis are spoiled by among the greatest seashores round, so it is smart that, once we go travelling, we need to know the highest spots to go to.

Thankfully, Australian coastal veteran and Tourism Australia appointed Pal of Australia, Brad Farmer AM did the laborious yards and judged Australia’s Greatest Seaside competitors for 2022.

After writing about seashores for nearly 40 years and visiting most of Australia’s accessible seashores, few persons are extra certified for the job of a choose.

This yr, the highest 20 winners encompass a variety of beautiful spots; some surrounded by nature, some only a stone’s throw from metropolis centres and others with a deep cultural connection to Austalia’s First Nations individuals.

Taking out the highest spot is Western Australia’s Distress Seaside. Discovered close to Albany, one look on the white sandy banks and vibrant blue water makes it apparent why this seashore was thought-about one of the best of the bunch.

In line with Tourism Australia’s Managing Director Phillipa Harrison, Farmer explored Australia’s shoreline, close by islands and inland to create the “distinctive record of seashores”.

“We have now among the greatest seashores on the planet right here in Australia, which is why they’re a part of the Australian lifestyle and why 70 per cent of worldwide guests take pleasure in a coastal expertise once they go to Australia,” Harrison added.

Farmer has been identified to shake up the Australian greatest seashore record.

In 2020 he set a nationwide precedent by together with inland river seashores and lakes on the record, recognising the worth of water experiences in regional and rural Australian communities.

This yr, each state and territory has a second within the solar and contains seashores from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean Territories) and Ok’Gari (previously named Fraser Island), Mots Seaside on the mouth of the Snowy River and Murrays Seaside in Jervis Bay Territory.

Contemplating the truth that Australia has the biggest variety of seashores of any nation on the planet, the duty of narrowing them right down to the ‘high 20’ isn’t any simple feat.

Nonetheless, under are some price a spot in your seashore bucket record based on Farmer.

Australia’s Greatest Seashores 2022

1. Distress Seaside Albany, WA

2. Horseshoe Bay South West Rocks, NSW

3. The Spit Gold Coast, QLD

4. Flaherty’s Seaside Yorke Peninsula

5. Loch Ard Gorge Port Campbell, VIC

6. The Neck Bruny Island, TAS

7. Blue Pearl Bay Whitsundays, QLD

8. Depot Seaside South Coast, NSW

9. Murrays Seaside Jervis Bay Territory, ACT/NSW

10. Dundee Seaside Darwin, NT

11. Dudley Seaside Newcastle, NSW

12. Thompsons Seaside Cobram, Rural, VIC

13. Coogee Seaside Perth, WA Metropolis of Cockburn

14. Mots Seaside Marlo, VIC Travis Godfredson

15. Alexandria Bay Noosa, QLD

16. Emu Bay Kangaroo Island, SA

17. Lake Wabby Ok’Gari (Fraser Is), QLD

18. Congwong Seaside Sydney, NSW

19. Jellybean Pool Blue Mountains, NSW

20. Ethel Seaside Christmas Island, IOT