Pambula and Ben Boyd Nat Park

Ben Boyd Nat Park
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Friendly Kangaroo

5 - 8 Oct 2008 Pambula Beach was 4 hours from Jervis Bay. Enroute we were led up the hill on a mountain road in Mimosa Rocks National Park by the Garmin GPS navigator. There was no possible route forward requiring backtracking down the hillside.

We stayed at a cabin-like lodging called #1 Heaven. Next morning the Kangaroos were all over the streets. James had his first close look of the Kangaroos in the wild.Becky and I went whale watching up the Marimbula coast and had a real treat of 4 inquisitive humpbacks. They waved their flippers at us, poked their noses right up the side of the boat, the True Blue whale watching company.

Ben Boyd Tower

Ben Boyd National Park. This park is named after Benjamin Boyd, a prominent 19th-century Far South Coast entrepreneur. Its rugged coastline is a colourful display of folded red rocks, standing out against the sapphire blue waters of the Pacific Ocean. At the Boyd watchtower, one humpback whale mother and 2 calves were playing very close to the shore. We watched fascinated as they gamboled in the water and waved their tails. We counted at one time the mother slapping her tail on the water surface a total of 10 times