Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Central Tilba and Mystery Bay

One of the great things about the NSW South Coast is is its diversity of landscapes, into which nestle often pretty and historic little towns. There are many farming areas hosting livestock on green pastures, vineyards, along with vibrant fruit and other horticultural production. The landscapes include numerous broad river estuaries; lots of rocky headlands separated by lovely curved beaches of white sand; great waves for surfing and other water sports like paddle-boarding; coastal forest with towering trees; and mountainous backgrounds. Some of the little villages are home to alternative life-stylers with their craft industries, arts focus, trendy dress codes, micro-breweries and other food producing businesses, cafes and restaurants, and maybe a hint of drug availability. One such town is Mogo on the Princess Highway - which links Sydney and Melbourne via the coast - which I included in an earlier post. This time we visited Central Tilba an hour or so to the south. It's a period village that's National Heritage listed and we liked what we saw.








Central Tilba is located amidst lovely scenery.


Many buildings have their biographies posted on their walls:









The journey then took us north along the coast amidst some lovely scenery, taking in serially Mystery Bay, Montague Island offshore, Narooma - astride the Wagonga Inlet, and the coast around Dalmeny.


Here's the coast around Mystery Bay and, if you look closely at the first photo you might just make out Montague Island.



The next few photos show Wagonga Inlet with Narooma on the southern shore.



These Pelicans posted nicely for me.




Narooma on the southern side of the inlet.


A couple of guys scanning the lake-bed.



And the coast looking north towards Dalmeny.




Lovely, eh?

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