Via Hyams Beach and Pebbly Beach to Bodalla

Heading out from Sydney, we first went to Hyams Beach, which one of my Australian colleagues had suggested. “You know Baywatch, the US TV-series, right?” she asked. “Sure!” “Guess where they got the ‘Malibu’ sand from? – Hyams Beach, Australia. It’s the whitest sand in Australia”. Because we left Sydney around noon, it took us until 5pm to get to Hyams Beach. We strolled around the beach, sampled the sand – yes, it’s quite white indeed -, fed our little one, then hit the road again.

Our next stop was Pebbly Beach at around 9pm. Usually we wouldn’t stop by a beach that late in the evening, but friends told us, there are roos around. So we walked to the beach in the dark using our mobile phones as flashlights – and there they were:

Returning to the car park, we noticed a movement at one of the rubbish bins near by and then saw this fine gentlemen having a dinner feast:

After a very long day, we arrived close to midnight at the Bodalla Diary Shed and Cheese Factory, our home base for the next two nights.

Bodalla

Bodalla is a cute little backwater village with a Hippie Stick store, a bakery, a post office – and the Bodalla Diary shed. They do excellent variations of cheddar with local herbs and other variations of cheese as well as non-homogenized milk, which is still pasteurized, but doesn’t have the fat emulsion treatment of regular processed milk. It’s delicious.

Eurobodalla National Park

The day after our long hike from Sydney, we decided to have a laid back day in Eurobodalla National Park. As you can tell from the pictures, this is a very quiet place. Ideal for chilling a few hours on the beach in peace.