Narooma

The Narooma area is one of the most popular holiday destination in the New South Wales. It is the scenic gem of the South Coast. Its pristine, golden beaches, the spectacular blue lakes, inlets and rivers and the magnificent scenery simply take your breath away.

There is the historic National Trust villages of Central Tilba and Tilba Tilba built from the early 1900’s and the deserted beaches, rocky headland at Mystery Bay.

Narooma’s history dates back to the early 1800’s where it used to be known as Noorooma, the Aboriginal name for clear, blue water. Cheese factories was later established at Bodalla, Tilba and Narooma. We visited the ABC Cheese Factory (Bate Street Central Tilba, Tasting and Sales 9am to 5pm, Phone : (02) 473 7387)which has been established since 1891, where we tasted the flavours of the award-winning Tilba Club Cheeses. Wagonga was also used as a port for the nearby gold mining town of Nerrigundah. Gold was also discovered on the slopes of Gulaga or Mt Dromedary. But it is timber that soon became the most important product in the area along with fishing, oyster farming, dairy and tourism.

This is one of the machineries which they used in gold mining.

We also visited the Tilba Valley Wines (http://www.tilbavalleywines.com) where 5000 bottles are produced annually for the local market. Saturday morning was a day at the Moruya Country Markets (8am to 12 noon) where you can find a bargain. Toast with Ham and Cheese was exceptionally yummy. Dinner was woodfired pizza at Fromage(Lynch’s Arcade, Narooma, 5pm, Wed to Sun). The hot chick and BBQ Chicken is not to be missed.

Lunch was picnic from Woolworths with our two friends, Adeline and Yuen Phern, and Tea was at the Quarterdeck where they served yumnmy cheesecakes and warm hot chocolates with marshmallows and you can overlook the sea within the restaurant and yummy fish and chips

Piper Lookout - On our way home