| Rosedale is 18 km south by road from Batemans Bay. Its lack of shops and clubs, along with rocky headlands and surf beaches, make it a weekend treat. Be wary, the main unpatrolled surf beach is famed for rips and shifting sand bars. The creek through town offers bird habitat. This Large Egret Egretta alba was accompanied by a White Faced Heron Ardea novaehollaniae. |
| The few kilometre looping walk from Pebbly Beach southwards to the headland is best tackled at low tide. Pebbly Beach has distinctive black shell and pebbles between rocky outcrops away from sandbars. |
| The rocks to the headland show metamorphic sedimentary strata typical or area (perhaps a phyllite facies rock with a sandstone or mudstone protolith). |
| Metamorphism is indicated by quartz veins typical of metamorphic strata (exsolution of quartz throughout strata is indicative of low grade metamorphism). |
| Non-ferrous mineralss weather to form pockets in iron veins (dissolution and reprecipitation of iron oxide from the rock produces iron box working}. |
| The only cunjevoi Pyura stolonifera colonies are on the headland, relatively small individuals indicating recent recruitment, probably after earlier cohort was blasted from rocks in storms. The cunji zone is delineated strongly above kelp and below upper wash limit. |
| The rest of the loop is mainly across sandy beaches with options to take an overland hike home on any of the beaches before Guerilla Bay. 
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