When the local fishing fleet decided on staying in port for 5 days, it was as loud a warning as one could ever get. We were definitely taking up the option for a weekly rate at the marina! The forecasts just got worse and worse. We've never seen a forecast with 7 Alerts on it before. A nasty East Coast Low was forming and although we were at the very southern edge of it, forecasts of 5-6m seas and 40knot winds off-shore make more of ones eye-whites visible. Easy Tiger were by this time in Jervis Bay and definitely going to have a worse time. We feel like we've dodged a bullet by lingering in Eden and now here in Bermagui.
Something is definitely brewing!
Captive in the harbour for the duration of the weather system, we looked for amusement and escape from the cabin. Luckily it wasn't raining without end which enabled us to trek up the coastal walk along Haywards Beach through the wetland trail as far as Camel Rock.
It was wild out there.
Camel Rock was named by Joseph Banks and Matthew Flinders
After trekking for 7km, The Bloke rested on a bench before tackling the 7km to return.
We took the inland route back and encountered, abandoned mine shafts.
Alluvial Gold was found on the beach in the early 1900's.
The Montreal Goldfield is a local tourist attraction with daily tours commencing at 2pm SHARP!
The real attraction though, was the show that mother nature was dishing up. We were just so glad we were in the Bermagui Harbour and not a part of these pictures.
The entrance to the river and harbour 'closing out'.
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