Day 16 - Sunday 20 February - Eden area - Kazza's Australian Holidays

Urgh so not a great sleep. The mattress was way too soft and I kept waking up with an aching spine. Grunt.

We headed into town for brunch (although I couldn't find my mask and tore my bag and car apart trying to find it, so went back to the motel, and found it in the bottom of the shopping bag from last night (it's black so camoflaged against the black plastic so I missed it when unpacking the shopping last night)). Take two, went to Cuppaz, which was about the only place in Eden that seems to do a sit down breakfast. We both had eggs benedict which was decent enough.

Stu at breakfast at Cuppaz in Eden

Then we hit the road.

First we saw the Seahorse Inn, which is supposedly famous. It's quite pretty too.

The Seahorse Inn

Then headed out to the Davidson Whaling Station. Not much is left except the cottage, and a big old pot and furnaces. We *mostly* had this place to ourselves, although others did arrive as we were leaving.

Davidson Whaling Station
Photo by Stu

Davidson Whaling Station

Inside the old house at Davidson Whaling Station

Oil pots and boilers at Davidson Whaling Station

Oil pot at Davidson Whaling Station

The end of the Towamba River where it flows into Twofold Bay

The end of the Towamba River

Then we went into Ben Boyd National Park to go look at Boyd's Tower (used for spotting whales). $8 (pay and display) entry to the park, and we had to scramble to find the right cash. Seriously who even has cash these days? Other than $2 I spent on a motel dryer, this was the only other time we spent cash the entire trip. The tower is very cool. It'd be awesome if they rebuilt the interior stair case so you could go up it.

Timber awaiting transport at the Port

Boyd's Tower

The lookout right on Red Point was burnt out by the bushfires

Coastline near Boyd's Tower

View to Eden from Red Point

Top of Boyd's Tower

Boyd's Tower

Inside of Boyd's Tower

View out the door in Boyd's Tower

View out of a window in Boyd's Tower
Photo by Stu

Red rocks at Red Point

Red rocky shoreline from Red Point

We turned around at that point and headed north of Eden. The Pinnacles walk is closed at the moment which is a bit disappointing, as it meant I couldn't reproduce our photos from 1990 (we possibly could have parked there anyway and tried to see it from the beach, but all too hard). Instead we went all the way out to Haycock Point which had quite a nice view.

Red rocks at Haycock Point east of Pambula

Red rocks at Haycock Point

Haycock Beach from Haycock Point

Then drove through a couple of bulas (Pambula and Merimbula, sadly no stop at the brewery) and a Tura. North of Tura was Reggie's Lookout. At the north end of Tura beach was a little inlet of a beach that was quite sheltered and there was a dude body surfing there.

Pambula Rivermouth

Track to Reggie's Lookout

Tura Beach from Reggie's Lookout

On the track back we saw a goanna which was pretty cool. And as we were in the car getting ready to leave I saw another one - eating a fish!! WTF!? Apparently someone had left the fish there (it had been there all day apparently), quite probably for the goannas. Craziness. But the goanna was loving it, and let us get close enough to watch/photograph it for a while.

Goanna on the track to Reggie's Lookout

Goanna enjoying a fish someone had left for it near Reggie's Lookout

Goanna near Reggie's Lookout

Then we just headed back to Eden.

I checked out the pool at the motel, and noone was in it, so I was able to convince the sweetie to go for a swim. It's an indoor heated pool (heated to be not cold, not hot, so that was nice). And we had a lovely refreshing swim.

Then just to the room to chill out for a bit.

I'd asked at motel reception if they had any suggestions for a niceish dinner venue. She said other than a place which is closed Sundays, we could try the Great Southern Inn. So we did that. It's basically just a pub bistro, with water glimpses, but was nice enough. I tell you, if you want a successful business idea, find a spot overlooking the water and setup a "nice" restaurant and/or café. This town is crying out for something like that. Well, maybe it isn't and that's why there isn't one. We shared a half a rack of ribs and lemon pepper calamari.

Cheesy garlic bread at the Great Southern Hotel ($9)

Half rack of ribs with slaw and wedges at the Great Southern ($23)

Lemon pepper calamari with chips and salad ($22)

Dropped into Coles on the way back to pick up another tub of salted caramel press-to-crack Magnum ice cream (we'd gotten one last night as well but the freezer in the fridge is so crap it'd basically melted by the time we'd had a beer and dinner). A frozen one was a lot nicer!

Day 16 - Sunday 20 February - Eden area

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