The Central Coast

The Central Coast

On our drive down from Newcastle, I stopped off and had a surf at Catherine Hill Bay, before continuing down to the Central Coast proper.

The central coast is an area of Australia below Newcastle and above Sydney. We spent 3 days on the Central Coast at a campsite at Canton Beach, and, during one of them, we visited Charlotte's grandmother's cousin, Betty!

 This is Copacabana Beach; we stopped and had lunch here!

 Terrigal Rock Pools

 Charlotte at Terrigal Beach

 This is Frazer park. I went surfing here; bit scary and sketchy as it's notoriously sharky. Absolutely beautiful bay though!

 This is a cave and inlet at Snapper Point. Snapper point is notorious for being a place where many rock fishermen have been swept to their deaths from rogue waves and the exposed blowholes.

 This is Charlotte, having fun on the jumping mat at the campsite

 When we visited Betty, we were taken to the Pelican feed at The Entrance. It was great seeing the pelicans all together; but the people putting on the show were extremely rude and pushy.

 Charlotte and Betty eating ice cream

 The Entrance

 This is Tuggerah lake; Betty drove us around here. She also took us for lunch at a cafe in the valley, which was a beautiful spot.

 This is a view from a bay called Crackneck. I didn't surf here - the name says it all.

 (Above and below) A couple more photos of the Pelican feed - including Charlotte and Betty trying to peer around the crowd.

After the Pelican feed, we went back to Betty's house for a coupe of hours and chatted for a while. After that, we were taken to Betty's son's (Jamie) house and met his family, who were fantastic and very friendly and accommodating. We had dinner with them and were shown around and introduced to the family and we all got on very well. They were great to meet and we stayed until quite late in the evening.