Kevtoberfest #18 Narooma to Mallacoota
Long distance driving can be tiring and it’s important to take regular breaks every couple of hours. When the route we’re taking passes through pretty country villages and coastal towns, we don’t need an excuse to stop and stretch our legs.
After leaving Narooma and continuing on our southward journey, our first stop was at the little village of Central Tilba. Located at the base of Mount Dromedary, Central Tilba and its neighbour Tilba Tilba are heritage listed, with beautifully preserved period cottages and shops.
It was early morning and the galleries and cafés were still closed. The only inhabitants we saw were some noisy rainbow lorikeets, breakfasting on the flowers of melaleuca trees.
Luckily, the ABC Cheese Factory was open and we joined some other keen customers, sampling and purchasing a few delicious cheeses.
It wasn’t far to our next stop – we travelled just 20 kilometres to the coastal town of Bermagui. Situated on the Bermagui River where its wide natural harbour enters the ocean, the town is best known for its deep sea fishing industry.
Leaving the car and caravan at Dickinson Park, we walked past the marina and the broad sandy beach at Horseshoe Bay to Bermagui Point.
From the lookout on the headland we could see the coast from north to south, and inland to the mountains of the Great Dividing Range.
All this exploration gave us an appetite so, another 72 kilometres south, we stopped beside Merimbula Lake for a picnic lunch.
After so many scenic stops, our last break for the day had no connection to nature or history and was an unexpected surprise. Just south of Pambula on the Princes Highway, I spotted a sign – for a brewery! Of course, we turned off the highway and followed the directions to the Longstocking Nano Brewery, located alongside a café, gallery and garden centre.
The beers brewed onsite have 1920s themed names and are only available on tap, so Glen enjoyed a tasting paddle while I sampled the handcrafted ginger beer.
That was enough to sustain us for the rest of the afternoon and we continued to our final destination, just over the Victorian border at the seaside town of Mallacoota.
Road Trip Tally: Breweries 7/Craft shops 3
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Glad you enjoyed our little corner of the world
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Lesley, you’re so lucky to live in this area. We really had a great time.
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That was a very full and very beautiful (weather wise and in every other manner) day. I love the architecture!
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Aren’t these little cottages cute! I wonder how warm they’d be in winter though.
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Oh how very beautiful. Really must come back and explore more of your beautiful country x
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This is a wonderful area Becky and there is so much to see and do.
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That surely is a beautiful coastal area.
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The scenery is superb, Yvonne.
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This looks like the perfect travel day for us! The balance of exploring a beautiful new place, with good food and drinks, and the bonus of creativity shops, too, is the perfect combination.
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A bit of everything and not too far to drive.
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Tilba is a really lovely little town, isn’t it? At the moment I’m touring as well and am in Geelong having just had a wonderful day at Queenscliff. We re going to travel up the coast and will be stopping a night at Merimbula! Happy travels!
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You will enjoy the drive Jane, especially the area around Lakes Entrance. It’s so beautiful. My next post will be about Mallacoota. Happy holidays!
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Such a beautiful coastline, Carol. 🙂 🙂 And you do seem to have your fair share of breweries! Many thanks for the link up 🙂
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If there’s a brewery, we’ll find it Jo!
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I’m surprised you ever reached your destination Carol, with such pretty stop-off places along the way. Love those rainbow lorikeets!
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If we hadn’t had a date with Kevtoberfest we may have been tempted to go no further.
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That looks like a perfect day’s journey! Mmm, beer and cheese – and I can just imagine myself sitting outside the pretty Tilba Teapot.
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I would have enjoyed all the shops but we were there way too early. Oh well, we’ll just have to go back!
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Why not?!
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🙂
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I love stopping at towns like these. That cheese factory looks great. 🙂
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We bought a jar of marinated Persian feta which was amazing. Best feta I’ve ever eaten. Sadly it’s not sold where we live.
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Oh I love feta…. yum 😋
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This was incredibly good feta.
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Now I feel like feta 😉😋
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🙂
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So many great things to do during breaks, Carol: sampling cheeses, having a picnic lunch in a beautiful location, and later tasting beers. I love the rainbow lorikeet.
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It was a really nice day, Cathy and we hope to return for longer next time.
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My kind of travel day, short hops and interesting stops. I love this way of travelling. And I love this area too – I stayed with Meg ( https://morselsandscraps3.wordpress.com/ ) who lives in Potato Point and she kindly took me to Tilba and Bermagui. Fabulous countryside and beaches along there.
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It’s so beautiful and the gorgeous weather we had helped to make it even more wonderful. Lucky Meg to live so close. I must look up her blog. 🙂
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She is in Warsaw at the moment visiting her family there, but the link I gave you is to her home blog. Lots of lovely beaches on it and Meg is a fabulous wordsmith. I think you’d like her stuff.
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I’ll pop over now and take a look.
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I like your idea of a ‘break’ – bakery, cheese, beaches, colorful birds, and to close it out with a flight of beer. My kind of woman. 🙂
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Food is always a great way to take a break in my opinion! That ginger beer was very tasty, but sadly they only sell it on tap so we couldn’t take any away.
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The first and I think the only thing I think of when I hear Tilba is the cheese factory! It’s such a cute town to look around 🙂
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It was nice to have it almost to ourselves, and it was getting busier by the time we left. The cheese is wonderful and I wish we could buy it here.
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The sort of place that needs to be returned to. Beautiful scenery and interesting places to stop.
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Yes! We could easily spend several days exploring this area.
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What a lovely trip! Great excellent views, good cafés, great cheeses etc! Waw!
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This was a really nice way to spend a day.
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Gosh, I love the way you travel with all those little stops along the way. The Driver is a ‘head down, get to the destination’ kind of bloke and I’ve forlornly watched signs to interesting places whizz on by on many a holiday. Fabulous photos. It looks so sunny and bright. I’m glad you got to the cheese factory. It’s the one thing I do know about Tilba. They make cheese.
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I think it’s a man thing. Mr ET can be a bit like that too, but on this trip I insisted we take the detour to Tilba. Of course, he enjoyed it as much as I did. They do make cheese and it’s excellent. I wish it was sold in Queensland.
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Oh goodness, I was just saying today that I had barely scratched the surface of Australia and this post is proof! I must come back. That brewery looks wonderful … the theme, the names of the beer, the ambience. wonderful!
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Australia is huge and we still have so much to see too, even though we’ve done many trips. I do hope you are able to return one day.
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I love this corner of the world. Great post. Thank You.
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It’s very pretty and so green. They must have had good winter rains. Glad you enjoyed this post, Matti.
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Another beautiful stopping place. I am really enjoying this series of posts about Australia. The coast and mountains are beautiful and you have shown us so many wonderful places. Thanks
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I’m pleased to hear you’re enjoying this road trip. This area is lovely.
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Wow, I haven’t been to Narooma or the surrounding regions since the late ’90s – still looks as gorgeous as ever.
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It’s so pretty and we had glorious weather.
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Oooh, so many lovely places to stop on your trip. The Tilba Teapot looked particularly inviting, what a shame it was closed.
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It looked very pretty inside but didn’t look like it was going to open soon enough.
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Such a shame about that. 😉
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Probably a good thing really.
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