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Published: October 24th 2015
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The next morning we agreed to spend the day in Eden and then decide whether we would go further north (to places like Bega, Merimbula and Bermagui) or return back to Victoria and look for Victorian activities before returning home to Tasmania.
The first thing to do was to have a closer look at Twofold Bay. The environment around the bay is generally quite rugged and regularly has cliffs that allows viewing seaward. There is a very pretty lookout adjacent to the town that is maintained by the service group Rotary. The area also has a memorial for those who are lost in the seas around Eden. A viewing platform allows visitors (and other users) excellent opportunities to see whales as they travel up and down the Australian coast. It seems somewhat strange that Eden now advertises itself as a place to see whales when the whaling fleet did their part in almost wiping these friendly giants out just a few years ago.
The main street had all of the council workforce (and a few others too I suspect) on hand and they were making a big mess - you know the idea. Dig everything up, disrupt all of
the businesses and then put it all back together with brick paving instead of concrete footpaths and a few new statues or seats or whatever. We parked at the end of the street and walked into town and had coffee and cake at Sprout. Nice little shop doing organic veggies as well as all of the other things you would expect from a cafe.
To help exercise the calories away after morning tea, we decided to walk a stretch of the Eden Boardwalk. This is a 5 kilometre (or possibly more as they keep adding new sections) walk along the beaches and lakes of Eden and where you might see or hear a bird. It was still very windy so the birds were mostly staying in the trees or bushes but we did hear some very pleasant bell miners who have a song like a tinkling bell.
After the exercise on the boardwalk, we visited Aslings Beach which had a lovely view and lots of surfers (including a class from the local school). We had lunch here taking shelter from the winds behind some bushes as we watched the surfers trying to catch waves.
The weather forecast
Rotary Park Lookout, Eden
We found a few seals ...no whales for north of Eden looked fairly windy and coolish so we decided to return to Lakes Entrance instead of heading further north. We left Eden late in the afternoon travelling across the border to Cann River where we stopped for a coffee to keep us alert. The trees that were being assessed on the drive up were in the process of being cut down and while we drank our coffee, the workers took huge pieces of tree down with the aid of a high cherry picker and pulleys and ropes. It looked a very professional job. After our stop at Cann River, we drove through Orbost, marvelling at the width of the Snowy River (floodplains) before we, once again, stopped at the Burnt Bridge Road (just out of Lakes Entrance) for the night. This time it was much busier with half a dozen vehicles (some with caravans) parked around the area. We were luck enough to get the same fairly level spot that we had two nights previous so we were quite happy.
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