Sapphire Coast Attractions
Sapphire Coast Attractions Directory : Historical Sites and Heritage Locations
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At the Bega Cheese Heritage Centre experience and enjoy good old fashioned country hospitality. Viewing time is 9.00am - 5.00pm daily.
Bega Cheese built the Bega Cheese Heritage Centre, a faithful reconstruction of one of the first buildings on the Co-Op site (1899). Our museum offers visitors the chance to see have dairying has shaped the culture of the Bega Valley. At our Centre you can taste different varieties of Bega cheese and purchase from our wide selection of Bega Cheese as well as oth...Bega Cheese Heritage Centre
Bega
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360 degree views over lush Bega Valley to Great Dividing Range including the town of Bega.
Adjacent to the Princes Highway on northern approach to Bega.
Lookout is accessible for wheelchairs and excellent access with full turning circle suitable for coaches or caravans.Bega Valley Lookout
Bega
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Flanking Eden both to the north and the south, Ben Boyd National Park contains 10,790 hectares of coastal land offering striking coastal scenery from sandy surf beaches, rocky bays and ocean platforms, to quiet campgrounds, sheltered inlets and historic lighthouses.
Named after Benjamin Boyd, a 19th Century entrepreneur who played an important part in the development of the area, the park provides a wealth of things to see and do.
Swimming, barbecue or picnic along the water's edge at a variet...Ben Boyd National Park
Eden
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Boyds Tower is located at Red Point, on the southern headland of Twofold Bay.
This historic 5-storey sandstone tower was built in 1846 from stone shipped
from Pyrmont in Sydney. Ben Boyd intended The Tower to be used as a
lighthouse to guide home his fleet of ships, but permission to light it was
refused by the government of the day. It was later used as a vantagepoint
for whale spotters. Access to The Tower was upgraded during the bicentennial
year. A 500 metre asphalt track suitable for w...Boyds Tower
Eden
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Historic site officially opened in 1991.
Site of the Davidson Family Whaling Station, from where shore based whaling was conducted from 1826 to
1932. Three generations of the Davidson family worked from this site to hunt migrating whales. They were
the only whalers known in the world to work in partnership with killer whales (orcas). Their history is also
commemorated in the killer whale museum in Eden.
Interpretative signs incorporating historic photographs and sketches have been instal...Davidson Whaling Station
Eden
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The Eden Killer Whale Museum has been in operation for some seventy two years. It is a publicly owned facility. The building is situated on a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean where, in the season, whales may be seen from the various vantage points.
Exhibitions about the shore-based whaling operations from Twofold Bay during the 1800s and early 1900s include a full skeleton of 'Tom' the Killer Whale, legendary Orca. He led a pack of killer whales in the hunt for baleen whales on their sou...Eden Killer Whale Museum
Eden
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Panoramic views of coastline where many ships were wrecked in the 19th century. There is also the graveyard and Memorial to the 'Ly-ee-Moon' Disaster. The Area is popular with scuba divers.
Perched on the edge of a Peninsula, Green Cape was first described by Matthew Flinders in February 1798 when he passed it in the colonial schooner 'Francis' on his way south to the Furneaux Islands to rescue the crew and cargo of the 'Sydney Cove'.
In 1880 the decision to construct a lighthouse gained mome...Greencape Lighthouse
Eden
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Located in the historic cargo sheds of the Merimbula Wharf.
Extensive range of fish and invertebrates which live on or visiting the south
coast. Includes tropical fish which travel down on the warm currents each
year. Each gallery shows specific species ie: bottom dwellers, venomous fish,
tropical and tide pools. Also 70,000 litre tank displays ocean shoal fish.
Marine biologist available to explain exhibits to groups by appointment.
School groups receive special pamphlets.
Note: Coach tour...Merimbula Aquarium
Merimbula
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The only remaining coastal steamer wharf in NSW, it was originally built in 1862 and used until 1952. The wharf was restored by the National Trust and local residents and is listed on the register of the National Estate.
Tathra Wharf Restaurant and Café offer all day dining, specializing in family affordable cuisine including Seafood, Salads and of course our ever popular burgers.
During September to November and May to July you can view dolphins, seals, whales going past the wharf.
A small...Tathra Wharf Restaurant and Cafe
Tathra
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Toad Hall Country Crafts and Gifts is located in an historic building, over 115 years old and is situated in the heart of historic Pambula.
Toad Hall was established as a craft shop in 1971 and is well known for its fascinating collection of handmade crafts and gifts.
It has a magnificent display of local crafts, pottery, paintings, ceramics, porcelain dolls, knitting, woodturning and jewellery and much more.Toad Hall
Pambula
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