Mar 24

Mystery bay

From Genoa we are driving further north along the coast. We have spoken to Niki and Nic and they will be moving house during Easter weekend. Afraid that they are underestimating the amount of work involved in packing and moving after you’ve lived in a place for a couple of years, we decide to do the parently thing and head back to Sydney. It’s only 600 km or so from where we are now.

So we get on the road reasonably early. On the road we are quiet and our thoughts are still with Dotti and the scenery supports that mood.

We pass fields of purple flowers.

And stop to see if they are the same prickly ones we’ve seen before.

But these are different.
While we look, we see there are other wild flowers we have not seen before.

Then at around 10 am we reach the Victoria – New South Wales border.

The road takes us through milk country with cheesy names like Bega and Tilba.

And we decide to visit the historic town of Tilba. Nossi comes with us so we can go all three. Marjo enjoys looking around at leisure and Nossi and I are content to take in the touristy scenery around us.

Then Nossi and I decide to take a walk to the lookout in town, next to the town water tank.

When leaving town we’re glad that he people with multi coloured feet have gone otherwise it could have gotten messy.

Not far from Tilba we reach Mystery bay. The bay itself is the location where the abandoned wreck of a small boat was discovered in mysterious circumstances in 1880. The boat had carried Lamont Young, a government geologist inspecting new goldfields on behalf the New South Wales Mines Department together with his assistant Max Schneider, and boat owner Thomas Towers and two others, from nearby Bermagui. None of the five men were ever seen again, and Mystery Bay was named after their unexplained disappearance. They probably found gold and were never heard of again.
The beach is nice to swim in, not so much for kiting (if there would have been any wind).