"South East" - NSW, not SA!

The last few days we have spent at the very pretty south coast (NSW) town of Merimbula.

We have felt quite at home as on the radio they keep talking about “ABC – South East”!However, this is a different one to the one we usually listen to! All sounds fairly ‘alien’ really. Although, they have experienced threats to their local hospital too!

The Merimbula Beach Holiday Park, our previous home, sits on Short Point, adjacent to Middle Beach and Long Point. (Of course it would)! And we were perched up on a reasonable high point (catching wind!!) with a view to the sea (if we glimpse hard between a couple of cabins!). The park has great amenities - most loved is the heated swimming pool, which is lovely to hop into, but the wind-chill factor, when the shoulders poked up a bit was somewhat cool!


Lovely pool! Sitting on about 26 or 27 deg. Nice!

View from Caravan Park along Short Point Beach.
Great for a bit of body boarding, swimming, castle building
and walking on very "squeaky" sand.

The 'fisherman'

Lily enjoyed joining in with a 'Kid's Club' activity - checking out the rock pools, adjacent to the caravan park. She then proceeded to point out some interesting marine "critters" to us.

Geographically, so many of these coastal places on the east coast of Australia have a picturesque combination of rocky points, rough southerly oceans on some beaches, more sedate surf in sheltered bays, narrow inlets of water where salt water mixes with fresh water,  that comes down from the adjacent, forest covered ranges.

Merimbula, it appears, has developed over the years as a tourist town, with a certain amount of fishing and oyster industry. The main ‘through’ street in town is also the main business street, with shops galore lining each side – cafes, clothes shops, surf shops, newsagents, banks, icecream and lolly shops, pharmacies etc, etc – all catering to the tourists staying in the many, many accommodation choices in town. And most of the nice looking apartments had a ‘No Vacancy’ sign at the front! One theory we heard today, was that there is a higher concentration of 'caravanners', than normal, staying in New South Wales rather than heading further north to Queensland, with all of it's rain and cyclone/flood devastion. Who knows? So far we haven't had any trouble just rocking up to a Park and getting a powered site. Let's hope it stays that way!