The Rocks - as we call it around here!

If you live in Sydney then The Rocks is THE Rocks, so we were a little confused when we heard people around these talking about going to The Rocks for something - turns out they mean South West Rocks.
Now we are locals we can say The Rocks and know that we only have to drive about 40 mins to get there.
There is much to recommend The Rocks - a very nice cafe down by the river (The Boatshed), lovely north-facing beaches, Horseshoe Bay which is perfect safe swimming for kids, another lovely cafe overlooking Horseshoe Bay (Malt & Honey), and a more than reasonable Thai restaurant (Thai on the Rocks), it has a cinema (The Roxy, of course), and there is camping right on Horseshoe Bay.
I'm sure we'll discover more of its charms in the weeks to come but this is for starters.