Scotts Head

The last four days have been spent at Scott’s Head an absolutely beautiful seaside village and beach, with a great surf break around the headland.

 We have spent our days enjoying time on the beach, swimming in the clear water with its pleasant water temperature. Lazing around watching the many surfers, paddle boarders and of course enjoying lovely walks along the beach.  The caravan park is located alongside the beach and we had a great site that backed onto the sand dune with beach access close by.  The sand dunes have quiet dense vegetation a great habitat for the very large Monitor (lizard) that came to visit looking for water. I was very wary with leaving the caravan door open after seeing what was lurking in the vegetation also a little wary as I used the beach access.

Today we were entertained by tree arborists that were in the park cutting back some of the many trees, we were unable to access the van for a couple of hours as they trimmed quiet close to our site.  Baz had washed the van when we first arrived, but after today we have a film of dust over the van from the chain saw and the chipper. Hopefully it will blow off tomorrow when we hit the road again, could have spent a couple of weeks here no worries at all.

Walkway from caravan park Scotts Head

Good thing the beach whale was well camouflaged

Beautiful clear water perfect for swimming, surfing,
paddle boarding etc

Monitor (lizard) making it's way up the track to the beach

Another visitor that came for a drink
 before making it's way back into the bush.
It was also in Camouflage colours!

Hawks Nest

Wednesday we left the Hunter Valley making our way to Hawks Nest, a small township adjacent the northern head of Port Stephens. Once we had double lanes out on the Princess Hwy and north of Newcastle the traffic settled down and we were able to travel at our own speed without worrying about what traffic was held up behind us. Only a short trip 90kls which took us through the delightful seaside township Tea Gardens, have since learnt that John Howard has a holiday home there. I am sure it must be along the boulevard opposite Jimmy's Beach as the homes there were stunning.

Our destination was a few klms out of Hawks Nest at the Myall River Primitive Camp. As soon as we entered the camp ground we could see that it was definitely a place we wanted to stay, lucky for us there were still a few areas to choose from along the river bank. It didn't take us long to get the chairs out and begin enjoying the serenity of the river and bird life.

This was an amazing camp absolute tranquillity, ended up staying for three nights and could have stayed much longer. Thoroughly enjoyed the camp fire each night that our neighbours shared with us, also watching the dolphins swimming past just on dusk and the daily visit from Pete the Pelican.

Relaxing beside the Myall River

Picturesque Myall River

Same picture at sunset

Pete

Jimmy's Beach Nelson Bay