Tathra NSW, Tathra Wharf

Made the tiresome journey around the coast, first through Orbost and then to Cann River where every van on the road in the south east of Australia stopped for coffee and a ’pitstop’, then after coffee and cake, we pushed ahead and right on through to Tathra where we had booked into the van park for the next week and a prettier sight I have not seen for some time. This is not really a fun journey, it’s just hard work, up and down, round and round, bump, bang, crash, road works, stop, go. It took nearly 5 hours for 300 km. 

We settled into the Big 4 and although in no way busy, there a few other vans here. Across the road, another van park which seems to be trading on the fact that Frankie J Holden is a part owner, is doing big renovations with new cabins and a new water play park getting ready for the coming summer season. This park is very nice but will probably have to upgrade to compete with the park across the road. Like most other parks on the south coast (and also through Gippsland) there is a high percentage of permanent vans and cabins, that take up a substantial part of the park. It looks as though these are slowly being replaced with cabins and it isn't unrealistic to think that van sites will begin to be taken as well. 

We took a drive around to Tathra wharf and it is as I remember from many visits over the years, still signs proclaiming that at last it has been ‘saved’ and the latest in a long line of businesses with its doors almost open, and fisher persons all hopeful of an evening meal jumping on their lines. Today the sea was running fairly well and I've got a few snaps of the waves rolling in. The one with the rocks and the ‘soup’ is where I have been diving a few times in days past. Someone told Judy about a whale was here just yesterday rubbing itself against the pylons to scrape of a few unwanted barnacles, so now we are on whale watch alert again! She really wants to see a Southern Right Whale.

As ever, hopefuls dangle a line, and the swell rolls on by. Tathra, NSW

Stock load was once the reason that Tathra wharf existed , Tathra, NSW

Beach. Tathra, NSW

I used to go SCUBA diving right here, just clamber down, fully kitted out and jump off that rock in the middle foreground. Tathra, NSW