The most interesting part of Batemans Bay is the further north Murramarang National Park, as it includes three dreamful beaches (Pebbly, Pretty and Depot Beach) and a beautiful river into the ocean in North Durras. But before we came there we visited two other beach cities, namely Bendalong and Narawallee (incl. Mollymook). The beaches weren’t white anymore but spectacular anyway, especially Narrawallee which lies within a bay surrounded by a mangrove forest. We were even able to spot some locals while spear fishing (without any success as far as we know) and surfing. This time surfing means that the board was attached to a car with a 30-40m rope which accelerated whit full speed. It didn’t work really well, but it looked pretty funny and if we wouldn’t have had a bit of a hurry Tobi even could have tried it himself.
In order to visit the national park, the street leads through an impressive forest to the car park, where one has to pay the fee for the entry. Of course we didn’t have 7$ in coins with us (who would have that???), why we just stayed there without paying. We wanted to camp at one of the beaches and followed the suggestion of our tourist guide pointing out Pebbly Beach as a unique natural experience. Due to the bad weather this was not so amazing, but we got an idea what was meant by that. Kangaroos and wild bird everywhere and the beach only 100m apart. As we didn’t find any possibility to pay the camping fee it was even for free 🙂