Category: New South Wales

Batehaven at Corrigans Beach is the gateway to the golden beaches of the Batemans Bay area and just three minutes drive from the Batemans Bay town and Catalina Country Club a 27 hole golf course. Batehaven offers the holiday maker a large choice of accommodation, restaurants and shops for all those every day needs and with eight great beaches in eight minutes drive it’s the perfect location for all holiday makers.

Bermagui and Wallaga Lake have long been a fishermen’s paradise. Surrounded by secluded surf beaches, estuaries, wetlands and coastal lagoons, with Mount Dromedary watching over the scene, the secrets of Bermagui unfold. The continental shelf being at its closest point to the mainland, fine fishing is afforded off the shoreline. It’s where warm southern currents flow and the big game fish are in tow. Charter boats operate deepsea, dive and game fishing trips where black marlin and a chase of yellowfin tuna is a regular event. The coastline also offers some of the best whale watching in Australia.

Bream Beach is situated in Jervis Bay National Park on the banks of St Georges Basin. Jervis Bay National Park borders Booderee National Park which is Commonwealth Territory. Booderee National Park has some wonderful beaches, walking tracks and Botanic Gardens. Accommodation available within Booderee National Park includes camping & cabins.

Erowal Bay is situated on St Georges Basin. It is ideally situated for day trips to Booderee National Park or the pristine beaches of Jervis Bay. Accommodation is available in self contained houses.

Narrawallee is situated on the coast north of Mollymook. The beach here offers great surfing, swimming and boating activities. There is a boat ramp situated in Normandy Street (gravel ramp for light boats) into Narrawallee inlet. There are self contained holiday homes for rent in the area.

South Nowra has become a whole new shopping experience in its own right. With many of the larger stores (bedding, white goods, furniture, floor covering, etc) relocating here. There is also a lot of industry on this side of town, as well as car & caravan dealerships. Rest Point Garden Village (the big 4 park) is also located here. South Nowra is about a 15 minute drive to Jervis Bay.

Wreck Bay is an Aboriginal Village overlooking Summer Cloud Bay. There are wood barbecues, picnic tables and beautiful beaches. There is no accommodation available in the village.

The tiny settlement of Berridale calls itself ‘Crossroads of the Snowy’ because, when miners were making their way to the goldfields at Adaminaby and Kiandra from the port at Twofold Bay, they passed through Berridale. Today it is a small service town which, by an accident of history, lies conveniently between Cooma and the snowfields of Thredbo and Perisher Valley. Consequently each winter it becomes a popular stopover point for thousands of people who are heading to the snowfields. Located 436 km southwest of Sydney and 35 km from Cooma it has a population of 800 and is 860 metres above sea level (ie. below the snow line). It is a small township with a winery, a small shopping centre and the Snowy River Shire Council Offices. As a wit in Jindabyne observed: ‘Berridale is the sort of town where if you blink you’ll miss it but if you roar through you’ll remember it forever because you’ll probably get booked for exceeding the 60 km speed limit.’ Berridale was first settled in the early 1860s when William Oliver selected land in the area. He built a house in 1863 which subsequently became a wayside inn. The site of the original building is now Berridale Inn on the Jindabyne Road. Oliver named the town after his home in Scotland. The area grew slowly and although the SMA established a work camp in the town there is little evidence of SMA housing.

Tantangara Dam is one of the 16 major dams of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and is located in the north end of Kosciuszko National Park. Tantangara is a concrete gravity dam which was completed in 1960. It is 45.1 metres high and 216.4 metres in length.