Torrington Holiday Apartments Coffs Harbour

Coffs Harbor? Emerald Beach!

by capetien1

We visited in November, and found the beach water pleasant for swimming. Not especially warm, but tolerable on a spring afternoon.

We overnighted at Emerald Beach, about 17 km north of downtown Coffs Harbor. The place was Emerald Beach Holiday Park, which is actually a caravan park, but it also offers trailers with air conditioning. They call these cottages, but they're actually FEMA trailers, the kind used to house Hurricane Katrina victims from new orleans. Ours, which would easily hav accommodated a family of four, cost AUS$103 and was well worth the money.

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Why do we like this particular location? It happens to be adjacent to Moonee Beach National Park, a nature reserve overrun with kangaroos! You can stroll in the park and see kangaroos by the dozens, feeding or sitting there minding their own business. Not only that, but the animals are free to wander into the caravan park, and they do, along with wild turkeys and other Australian birds.

And these are not zoo animals! They're wild, although the kangaroos have grown used to people and are not especially frightened of us.

The sandy beach is separated from the caravan park by a windbreak of trees. I wandered down to the water in the middle of the night to do my Southern Hemisphere stargazing under dark skies. The Southern Cross sets shortly after sunset on October evenings.

Happy travels, and let me know if I can help further!

David

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