Seal Rocks. In which we explore another gorgeous section of the NSW coast.

There are so many little places tucked away along the coast.
You know when you travel up the Pacific Highway, you see all those signposts to places like Woody Head, Tea Gardens, Diamond Head and you wonder what is there?
A lot of these places are one road in, one road out - never on the way to anywhere, so you never stop.

But now we can!

After our little adventure at Trretops Adventure Park we popped on over to Seal Rocks.
I think we dropped in to Seal Rocks once before but don't remember much about it.

There, of course, is a lovely beach.
Unfortunately it was very, very seaweedy.
But we did have a quick dip.
The water was freezing!

There is also a lighthouse at Sugarloaf point.
It's definitely worth a visit because there are always great views from lighthouses.
And lighthouses are generally very photogenic.

You can stay in the cottages at the lighthouse, which would be amazing!
We stayed at the caravan park in Seal Rocks, which was fine, just across the road from the beach.
It had good facilities and nice grassy sites.

Walking along the beach revealed some oystercatchers and some amazing rock formations.

There's not much at Seal Rocks - a little shop and a coffee caravan which serves Holy Goat coffee..

And a bit of quirkiness

There is also camping nearby at Treachery Camp or in the Myall Lakes National Park at the Yagon campground.
If/when we go back we'll probably head for the Yagon campground as that is more our style of camping. There are just pit toilets and you need to take your own water. But there are several nice sites which would fit our small caravan or the tent if we decided to travel light.

Lighthouse birthday treat

In which G takes T on a mystery tour for her birthday.

He said we were going away for 2 days.
He said it wasn't very far.
He said we would eat out!
And we would go walking.

So here is where we ended up -

Well, not actually in the lighthouse, 'cus that is in use, but in the lovely lighthouse keepers' cottage just a little bit down the hill, but still with spectacular views.

From the back of the cottage we could see this -
(which possibly also includes our house!)

and from the front we could see this -

The next day we were lucky enough to have a tour of the lighthouse with our breakfast chef extraordinaire and host Pat.

Then we walked.
There is a 10 km track through the bush to the gaol at Trial Bay but we just did part of it.
It is a lovely walk, a bit steep going down the track to Green Island lookout but well worth it.

You can see our house from here!

Food-wise it was a mixed bag.
Breakfasts in the B & B were amazing - Whisk and Pin muesli, huge fruit platter and yoghurt, followed by eggs, tomato and toast.
I thought I was going to explode!
We didn't need lunch, but we did manage to fit in late afternoon nibbles and champagne.
Dissappointingly the Boatshed at South West Rocks is closed and no-one knows why.
Being a Wednesday in off-season not much else was open, only the pub and that was, you know....pubby.

Anyway, it was the most special, wonderfully surprising couple of days and I think that G is the bestest person in the world for organising it.