Every time I get to see a new location I think its more breathtaking than the one before! yesterday we went to the "Ben Boyd"National park which is only half an hour or so the other side of Pambula
the coastline as you can see from the pictures simply speaks for itself! the bush consists mainly of eucalyptus with tho odd almost prehistoric tree thrown in for good measure.
Whilst driving along the track leading to the beach we came across the first decent sighting of a large Snake so far,I managed to get some good close ups before it went off into the bush,we were not sure about the species, it could either have been a Tiger Snake(which is deadly venomous) a broad headed snake (which is also venomous) or a Diamond Python which is not venomous but can give you a nasty suck! we finally concluded later that it was a Diamond Python because at nearly 7ft long it was too big to be either of the others!(well I think so!)
Going on to a place called the Pinnacles which is formed strata of light sand and red clay,stunning sight with a backdrop of the Ocean! we then went to Haycock point beach were we came across a lone surf fisherman fishing for Bream(pronounced Brim over here) he was a very swarthy character, covered in tattoos and the colour of ebony, I asked if he had caught anything and he just pointed to the sand in front of where he was fishing, it took me a minute or two to see what he was pointing at but finally made out a large fish tail sticking out of the sand, he explained that in order to keep the catch fresh it was local practice to dig a hole and bury the fish with just the tail sticking out in order to find it again! he kindly dug it up and let me photograph him holding it but when i asked him if i could get a close up shot of his extraordinary face for the blog he glowered at me as though i owed him money! and said" nobodies blogging me mate"i retired gracefully and wished him luck!
we finished up having a picnic on a very sheltered beach called "Barmouth bay"
Tomorrow I'm headed off on my own back up to Bermagui to see how the offshore boats are doing, getting a bit impatient now to get an early reefing trip in whilst there are still a few colder water fish about.

p.s. saw a White Bellied Sea Eagle on the walk back to the car!

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