Back to the Coast

We're taking a few days to travel to the NSW South coast - holiday park for Canberra residents.  Our first stop is Cooma - gateway to the Snowy Mountains with their magnificent scenery and winter ski fields.  We have friends there and we camped on their large block among the chestnut trees.  We had cold nights and sunny days.  The autumn trees were at their best and Cooma was awash with colour.  We visited the NSW Corrective Services Museum which is attached to the Cooma Jail.  This is an excellent museum and is well worth a visit - an eye opener.  A visit to the prisoners' craft shop is worthwhile - we bought a walking stick there on a previous visit and this time bought a chopping board.

After a couple of days in Cooma we drove south and down Brown Mountain to Tathra, on the beach, where we booked in for a week.  Tathra is just one of the many picturesque coastal towns in this area.  The main industries in nearby Bermagui are fishing and tourism.




Tathra is surrounded by National Parks with many walking tracks, mountain bike trails and campsites suitable for tents.  The coastal scenery is stunning.  We detoured to Mimosa Rocks where we walked along the boardwalk with its interpretation signs of local Koori sites, to the pebbly beach.

Bega is about 20km inland from Tathra on the Princes Highway in dairy country.  We called in to the Bega Cheese Heritage Centre and Museum which is alongside the Bega Cheese Factory.  Bega cheese has been made here since 1899.  After our visit to the cheese factory we drove to a nearby lookout.  The Beautiful Bega Valley is well named.

After a very pleasant week in Tathra, we have travelled north along the Princes Highway to Tuross Head, where the Tuross River flows into the ocean.  We're here for a week, soaking up the autumn sunshine before we head back inland.  We've got relatives in this area so we are doing plenty of socialising.