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Bega
Bega is the rural centre of the Sapphire Coast featuring lazy creeks winding their way through paddocks of picture-book cows, and horses grazing against a backdrop of the darkly forested mountains.
It is prime dairy country, long famous for Bega Cheese and home to the fascinating Heritage Centre detailing the legacies of culture and history. Cheese and Wine go together, and Bega has the best of both.
Bermagui
Bermagui and Wallaga Lake have long been a fishermen's paradise. It's where warm southern currents flow and the big game fish are in tow.
Charter boats operate deepsea, dive and game fishing trips where black marlin and a chase of yellowfin tuna is a regular event.
Bermagui has its own commercial fishing fleet to reap the bounty of the abundant seafood. The Co-op adjacent offers fresh fish and prawns daily, or your own boat can be launched, fish weighed and cleaned with the facilities on offer.
Brogo
Just 19kms north of Bega is the stunning Brogo Dam, which is contained within the Brogo wilderness area and the southern section of Wadbilliga National Park.
The Brogo Dam offers picnic facilities and a ramp from which to launch your canoe or row boat. Power boats are also welcome in this area.
You can hire canoes to explore the Dam and gain access to remote pockets of bushland. Explore tranquil rainforest gullies, and the rugged picturesque surrounds.
Candelo
With all its country charms, Candelo was established 150 years ago and retains the peaceful village image and atmosphere.
On the first Sunday of every month the atmosphere is transformed by the many visitors who flock to the Candelo market. This thriving market sees over 150 stall holders on the banks of the Candelo river and displays a wide variety of arts, craft, clothes, books and fresh produce.
Cobargo
Cobargo combines the skills and craft of a working village with a genuinely historic past, its streetscape featuring the many turn of the century buildings that make it such an attraction for visitors.
The attractive buildings house craftspeople who not only sell a range of unique goods from woodcrafts and pottery to leather and art works, they can often be seen at their craft working in the way that people did when Cobargo was a young town.
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Eden
The southern gateway to the Sapphire Coast, Eden is set in rugged beauty with golden sandy beaches and crystal waters to the east and forests and parklands to the west.
The days when men and killer whales worked together to herd the gentle giants for the whaling industry are long gone and faithfully recorded in fascinating displays at the Eden Killer Whale Museum. The skeleton of Old Tom, last of the herding killer whales of Eden, is an impressive exhibit.
Pambula
Pambula is a coastal village big in history, its peaceful lakes and idyllic river mouth.
With estuary, beaches, ocean and lake in close proximity, strolling the meandering tracks through beautiful settings is just one way to enjoy Pambula's charms.
Beachcomb the sweeping sands, collect shells washed up with the tide, explore life in fascinating rock pools, lunch with the kangaroos or take a horse ride on Pambula beach.
Tathra Beach
Set like a gem into shades of green and blue, Tathra surrounds itself in the natural beauty of Mimosa Rocks National Park to the north, and Bournda National Park to the south.
Tathra Wharf is still a centre of activity today - the only remaining sea wharf on the East Coast.
Fur seals and fairy penguins from the colony on Montague Island often frequent the waters around the Wharf and are quite willing to let you be a part of their underwater world. Dolphins are also common visitors to this area and they can be seen off most beach areas in Tathra.
Wonboyn Lake
Wonboyn Lake 30km south of Eden, is surrounded by pristine forests, unspoilt beaches and abundant animal and birdlife. It is the perfect getaway renowned for its breathtaking beauty of water and wilderness and particularly significant for bushwalkers, birdwatchers and fishermen.
Wonboyn has a reputation second to none for some of the finest lake, estuary, beach and land based game fishing on the coast. The lake is renowned for its huge flathead and catches of bream, luderick, whiting, jewfish, trevally and tailor. From the beach, tailor, bream, salmon and whiting are all rewarded to the angler.
Wyndham
Established during the gold rush of the 1860s, Wyndham flourished with the demand for timber in the first half of this century.
The surrounding foothills and forests are an ornithological paradise with a wide diversity of animals and birdlife, luring horse riding enthusiasts, 4WD adventurers, and bushwalkers.
Only an hour and a half from the Australian snowfields, Wyndham is considered the gateway to the snow.
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