Editing Royal National Park (section)

===Coastal heathland===
[[File:Wedding Cake Rock and the White Cliffs, December 2014.jpg|thumb|The majority of the park's coastline is dominated by tall cliffs, forming unique features such as [[Wedding Cake Rock]] (pictured), facading vast [[heath]]land.]]
Running the full coastal length of the park is a coastal [[Heath (habitat)|heathland]] characterised by hardy, low-growing, salt-tolerant shrubs that spread across rocky, hard terrain with very little topsoil. The coast itself is composed mostly of high cliffs reaching a height of nearly one hundred metres at the southern end. These cliffs are punctuated by a number of fine, sandy beaches open to the ocean and providing fine swimming and surfing. Several of the beaches can be reached by road, others only by several hours of [[Hiking|bush walking]]. There are a small number of rocky coves. The beaches, two of which have volunteer surf life-saving clubs and large car parks, are amongst the most visited areas of the park. These heath lands are a hotspot for many small birds that have forsaken the suburbs of Sydney such as the [[New Holland honeyeater]].

Common vegetation on the exposed heaths on the headlands and cliffside paths include [[Westringia fruticosa|Coastal rosemary]],  [[Darwinia fascicularis|darwinia]],  [[Melaleuca armillaris|bracelet honey-myrtle]],  [[Allocasuarina distyla|she-oak]],  [[Kunzea ambigua|white kunzea]],  [[Drosera spathulata|sundew]],  [[Xanthorrhoea|grass trees]],  [[Baeckea imbricata|ridged heath-myrtle]],  [[Pterostylis|snakehood orchids]], prostrate forms of  [[Banksia integrifolia|coast banksia]] and  [[Lomandra longifolia|long-leaf matrush]].

Common vegetation on top of the ancient sand dunes above the coastal path includes Silver banksia (''[[Banksia marginata]]''), scrub-oak (''[[Allocasuarina distyla]]''), silky hakea (''[[Hakea sericea]]''), and pine heath (''[[Astroloma pinifolium]]'').

Sections of rare and threatened clifftop grasslands occur along exposed and windy sites which are generally dominated by long-leaf mat-rush and kangaroo grass (''[[Themeda australis]]'').

Many heath specialist birds are present in the heaths which include [[Lewin's honeyeater]] (''Meliphaga lewinii''), New Holland honeyeater (''Phylidonyris novaehollandiae''), [[beautiful firetail]] (''Stagonopleura bella''), [[chestnut-rumped heathwren]] (''Hylacola pyrrhopygia'') and the [[southern emu-wren]].