Where is hawks nest nsw

Hawks Nest Highlights. Award-winning Hawks Nest Beach also known as Bennetts Beach is the most popular and easily accessed beach in the Myall…. Yacaaba Head is the largest headland of the bay called Port Stephens at the southern boundary of the Barrington Coast at…. Food and drink. Tea Gardens Boatshed Restaurant has been established for the past 10 years. In that time they have grown to incorporate a….

Tea Gardens. Old Bar. Pacific Palms. Things to Do and Places to Stay Loading. Events 19 Mar. They're bringing triathlon back to this great location. Hawks Nest features calm, pristine waters, a fast and flat bike…. Sign up to our newsletter Plan the trip of a lifetime. Whether its watching the dolphins alongside the ferry to Nelson Bay, enjoying fish and chips by the river in nearby Tea Gardens, or checking out the surf at Winda Woppa, there are countless holiday memories to be made at Reflections Holiday Parks Hawks Nest.

Check in for powered sites at the park is from 11am, whilst cabins allow check in from 3pm onwards. If you plan to arrive after office hours 9am — 5pm please let us know so that we can have all relevant documents waiting for your arrival. Preparing for a holiday can be a massive journey in itself, at Reflections Holiday Parks our aim is to ensure guests are as well equipped as possible before hitting the open road. We recommend packing a torch and spare batteries, your trusty first aid kit, plenty of insect repellant, sun screen and hats to keep you sun safe and rubbish bags to keep the park tidy for the next guests on your site.

We currently have 6 dog friendly cabins for you to chose from be sure to check cabin availability online when booking. There are also a number of large dedicated off leash areas which you can view on our Dog on and off leash Hawks Nest Map. For more information on how to have the best dog friendly holiday experience at our park, please read our Reflections Dog Friendly Holiday Parks Terms and Conditions.

Located near the park entrance, the camp kitchen, with its great community atmosphere, provides an undercover area for you to cook, relax and meet other guests. There are plenty of picnic tables to sit, soak up the scenery and enjoy the natural environment. Bennetts Beach is just a hop, skip and a jump away. Bennetts Beach is the main beach in Hawks Nest and is a patrolled surf beach. Bring the surfboards for an early morning paddle to get the day started!

The dog is welcome too, just north of the golf course! Hawks Nest was named after a large tree which was a favourite nesting place of hawks, situated near the old hotel and used as a navigational marker in the early days.

The area was occupied by the Worimi Aborigines prior to white settlement. The first Europeans to work in the area were timbergetters who took an interest in the forests mostly red cedar along the Myall River early in the 19th century.

The timber was hauled by bullock train to mills, then carted by punt down river to Hawks Nest and the Winda Woppa peninsula. Ships bound for Newcastle and Sydney picked up the timber, unloading the stone they carried for ballast on the banks of the river, much of it being used in the construction of the rock walls which can still be seen today. A timber mill was built at Winda Woppa in and shipped out 13 million square feet of wood in Another early industry was boat building.

One pioneer was Frank Motum who arrived from England in and, with his family, established a hauling business shipping fish to the Newcastle and Sydney markets. The mouth of the Myall was traversed by punt until a ferry service was established in , replaced by the bridge in A range of activities in the area. Visitors can pursue a range of activities, mostly relating to the proximity of water and the national park: boating, swimming, surfing, wind surfing, waterskiing, diving, fishing, canoeing, bushwalking, bird watching, camping and pursuing the 4WD tracks both north and south of town.

There are two caravan parks while, in Tea Gardens, boats and houseboats are available for hire, a passenger ferry departs regularly for Nelson Bay on the other side of Port Stephens, and there are river, lake, fishing, deep-sea fishing and dolphin-watch cruises on offer. The Visitors Centre The Visitors' Centre in Myall St, Tea Gardens, which is a large building to your right, m before you reach the bridge, offers a comprehensive account of attractions, activities, tours, cruises, accommodation and bookings, tourist maps, tide charts and fishing guides see entry on Tea Gardens for more information.

Seeing Koalas Cross the bridge and head east along Kingfisher Ave. To your left is a reserve noted for its koala colony. The first left is Sanderling Ave and the next right is Mermaid Ave where a signpost directs you to the light boat ramp on the riverbank off the middle of Moira Pde adjacent the jetty and south-east of the bridge; a rather lovely spot.

Hawks Nest Beach Hawks Nest beach is very long and very beautiful. Cabbage Tree Island 26 ha looms just offshore. It was named after the cabbage tree palms in the two gullies on the island's western side, the only known nesting site of Gould's petrel. The one island in southern Australia to include rainforest habitat it was also the first gazetted flora and fauna reserve in NSW.

Yacaaba Head It is well worthwhile to walk the two or three kilometres along the spit which separates Hawks Nest from Yacaaba Head, the enormous headland which stands at the northeastern tip of Port Stephens. When you reach the base of the promontory a sign stands adjacent a well-developed path declaring the Yacaaba Head Walk. The path leads around the base of Yacaaba to its pebbly southern side where you can look out across the mouth of the bay to the southern peninsula of Port Stephens.

Dolphins frequent an area just offshore from here on a daily basis to socialise and rub their bodies on the smooth pebbles.