A good nights sleep only ended when we were woken by the sound of little boys chatting in their bunk beds. We woke to sunshine and that could only mean one thing – time to check out the beaches of Jervis Bay. We checked our Jervis Bay beaches book and cross referenced this with the recommendations we had been given and then we packed the car up and headed towards Booderee national park. We did have to stop briefly on the way, just outside Hyams, to take a photo of the kangaroo sign post. It was one of those most take pictures – you can’t go to Australia without taking one!
Our first stop was Murray beach. As we pulled into the giant car park (it was to be the site of a nuclear power plant) Tracy spotted a Wallaby in the nearby bush – her animal sense was as finely tuned as ever. We stopped the car, reversed a bit, went forward, back a bit, forward again and eventually Harry, Toby and I had managed to all get some pictures.
We then parked the car and set off down the track to the beach, about 300 yards through the bush. The beach we arrived onto was amazing, absolutely amazing. We would go on a few more across the day but this was definitely the best Australian beach for me.
What made this beach so nice was the fact that it was so stunning and that there was wildlife about. As we walked along the beach giant white bellied sea eagles flew over head – they were whoppers.
Then after climbing over some rocks at the end of the beach we then started walking back along the beach until Tracy’s wildlife spotting sensor kicked in again.
Before the words “oooh look at that” had hardly left her mouth we had turned and were running back to the rocks! As we climbed up, Toby and Harry were shouting “what?”, “what is it?”. Tracy was pointing and saying “look, there, look”. As Tracy directed the boys eyes I was climbing the rock and changing camera lenses – why do I never have the right lense on!?
We then stood there for about 10 minutes watching about 40-50 dolphins swim past probably no more than 30 yards off the shore. All the time that the dolphins swam by Toby hummed a Taylor Swift song non-stop. Whenever I hear that song now I will always think of dolphins!
Nothing could top the excitement of the dolphins at Murrays Beach so we decided to move on to the next one which was the Hole in the Wall beach. This was Tracy’s favourite beach because of the entry through the bush onto the beach. It was impressive.
After Hole in the Wall it was off to Green Patch beach for a nice walk. With the warmth of the sun kicking in we went back to car and headed back home for some lunch although not before we had taken some pictures of the Australian King parrot – what a colorful little chap he was!
With lunch taken care of it was time to visit the other beach at Hyams which has the whitest sand in the whole world. Allegedly. To be fair the sand was pretty white but I’m just not sure how you prove which is whitest. Anyway, we didn’t really care about the color of the sand we just needed a cricket pitch! A few hours of cricket and wave jumping followed along with building sand castles before going home for showers, dinner and some relaxing. It’s not easy all this playing, swimming and lying around on a beach – in fact it’s really quite tiring!