Crowdy Bay National Park stretches along the NSW coast north-east of Taree, from Harrington in the south to Laurieton in the north. To be honest, I’d never heard of it before my brother-in-law suggested it as a possible camping location a couple of weeks ago. We hadn’t booked anywhere and wanted to get away in…
We were well overdue for a family adventure when school holidays rolled around last week. Our twins are halfway through their first year at school, and I’ve had two crazy terms in a new teaching job, so a little escape from the daily grind was in order. In our typical last-minute fashion, we found a…
The last couple of Easter long weekends we have found ourselves out in the wild, gazing into a campfire and sleeping under the stars. Well, in a tent under the stars. My sister and her family are our camping buddies, and going bush seems to have become a bit of a tradition for us. There’s just…
When we arrived at the Kurnell Visitor Centre a couple of weeks back, the ranger asked us if we were heading out to see the whales. “Oh, the whales are migrating now?” was my reply. “Yes, they’ve spotted a heap this morning. The volunteers are out there counting.” For an enviro-chick, I feel a little…
Growing up in the Sutherland Shire, we knew Kurnell proudly as the “Birthplace of modern Australia” – the place of Captain Cook’s landing in 1770, a place to celebrate the beginnings of our nation. Primary school excursions to Botany Bay National Park in Kurnell back in the 80s were always about, “well, this is where…
Narooma, on the south coast of New South Wales about 4 hours south of Sydney, is a beautiful little gem of a town where we spent a couple of weeks camping last summer. One of the draw-cards to the area is Montague Island, just 9km offshore, known as Baranguba by the local indigenous people. Montague…
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