Week 2 Corrimal to Shoalhaven Heads

We rolled into the "GONG" Wollongong staying a a nice caravan park right on the beach but you would not believe the temperaturem most days it struggled to get into the 20's. It is a huge town, we don't klnow what we were expecting but it appears to be the holiday destination for both Sydney and Canberra.

Looking back from the headland to the City centre

We walked the city, had a beer at the 5 island brewery and a casual walk along the foreshore.

A little north of Wollongong is the Sea Cliff Bridge, quite a spectacular structure constructed in just 18 months in 2004 has a length of 665 metres. One of the unusual things we tend to see around the place are engraved locks locked to railings all over the place. It looks like graffiti has given way to high tensile locks with you unending love to your partner engraved onto locks.


We only stayed in the caravan park for 2 days, the first day we could hardly get out of the van because of the wind so there was a bit of walking to be done, so much more to see and so little time.

Off to Shoalhaven Heads

Only about 80 km down the road was a pleasant little drive, we now take less than 30 minutes to packup, hitch on and get on the road.

Close to the beach on the Shoalhaven River Shoalhaven Heads Caravan Park is a very family friendly park. The area has bird watching platforms walking tracks and an outside Gym to kept us busy. As you can see we have both mastered the equipment, what will be our next challenge.



 Just down the road is the Coolangatta winery originally the original site of the Berry family estate from the late 1800's. A small boutique winery producing around 5,000 bottles of wine per year.

A broad variety of grapes are gown but no crushing or bottling is done on site.

From here we went up the Kangaroo Valley Highway to Fitzroy Falls to see some spectacular views. The skies were not as clear as we would have liked due to the winds and high moisture levels in the air.

Cambewarra Mountain Lookout



Don't you just love signs like this

All the walking has got the thirst going so off we went to the Kangaroo Valley Township for Bangers and Mash and a Skooner of New just to keep us going.



We saw a wood working store and couldn't help but be amazed by the rocking horses. The one here didn't have a price but smaller ones with less detail were around the $6,000 mark. If you got to ask the price you probably can't afford it.