Pambula & Merimbula

Along the Sapphire Coast to Pambula, a sweet little  town with gorgeous beaches, a lake & nature reserve. This is a fairly typical of an Australian town high street, although the parking is usually at 90 degrees to the shops rather than parallel. Most of the shops have the canopies over the front so you are sheltered from the sun or rain & mainly single storey.

We spent an hour or so at Panboola Nature Reserve, the site of an old racecourse. Walking around the marshland adding to our bird spotters list - purple swamphen, superb fairy wren, masked lapwing (pic) Eurasian coot & a kite.

Lunch & some surf watching at Pambula beach & then on to Merimbula just up the coast. Again a lovely  town, tourism being its main industry along with oysters. Some great holiday accommodation here, with stunning views over the beach & lake. Walking along the main beach with our feet in the sea, we headed round the end of the spit to where it joins the lake, watching people swimming with the strong current pulling them through the water from the lake & towards the sea, clambering out & running back to do it all over again. Continuing round the edge of the lake to the jetty where a dog was amusing everyone by jumping off to retrieve a frisbie that his owner was throwing for him. All the kids were joining in - jumping off the jetty & having so much fun. Even the litttlest kids are confident around the water, they just grow up with all the water activities & are swimming, surfing, fishing & sailing from an early age.