Tuncurry (wikipedia) is a coastal town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, in the Great Lakes Council LGA, about 308 km (191 mi) north north east of Sydney. It is immediately adjacent to its twin town of Forster, which is the larger of the two towns. At the 2011 census, the Forster-Tuncurry area had a population of 18,904 people. This number grows considerably in the tourist season. The population of Tuncurry alone was 5,800. History The first land grant in this area was in 1875. The settlement was originally called North Shore and then North Forster and was renamed Tuncurry meaning “plenty of fish” in 1891 and then proclaimed a village in 1893. The area was well known in the early days for its timber cutting and sawmills. Timber was collected from the lakes and rivers by the logpunts (droghers). A bridge over the Coolongolook River that marks the entrance to Wallis Lake was built in 1959 linking Forster and Tuncurry and replacing the punt service that had operated since 1890. Tourism Because of its close driving proximity to Sydney, Forster-Tuncurry has established itself as a popular summer holiday destination, where in the hotter months, the population swells considerably. The school holidays in the colder months also bring large numbers of holidaymakers. Tuncurry’s Nine Mile Beach is a popular swimming, surfing and fishing spot. Tuncurry Rockpool is a shark netted swimming enclosure, formed by breakwalls which mark the entrance to Wallis Lake. Tuncurry’s lakefront areas are characterised by wharves and jetties which provide anchorage for fishing boats and pleasure craft. 26^th October, Sunday Well, here we are in Tuncurry. We left home on this day 6 months ago, can you believe that? We can’t. We left late this morning because we only had a 2 hour drive this morning and all on highway, so pretty quick and pretty boring. It is the main road to Sydney so you can imagine that it was not pretty exciting.  Tuncurry/Forster are twin towns and separated by a bridge between the two.  Forster is the bigger of the two towns. This is a lovely spot to go to the beach, veg out and fish.  There’s not much history here and it is a holiday spot for families.  The caravan park is the biggest that we have seen so far.  It’s pretty empty at the mo as it’s low season but we believe that you can’t swing a cat in here during the high season.  I think that we have come at the right time as it’s quite and the weather is beautiful.  It was 27 degrees today and the night would go down to about 18 degrees, so lovely temps for us. We went down to the beach this afternoon after setting up.  Hugo had his swim so he was as happy as Larry.  Tomorrow the hunter, gatherer is going to try and catch us a fish for dinner, I will let you know.

27^th October, Monday

Not a big today. Ralph went to catch us dinner this morning and got us a nice Bream, otherwise just chillaxed, read our books etc.  Tomorrow we will go out and about.

28^th October, Tuesday

It was quite windy last night and it took us a little while to get to sleep, however this morning was stunning.  Birds singing, sun shining, beautiful temperature, lots of mozzies (haha).  Actually I got chewed last night, as I do.  We are going through the mozzie coils like you won’t believe.  We took a drive to Green Point which is a huge lake.  This place is known as the “Great Lakes District” as there are so many of them.  A lot of the big lakes do lead out to sea but there are some that are blocked off and the council will dig up the sandbars to the sea every now and then to fill the land locked ones up. It really is very beautiful here and we are glad that we were told to stop here by John and Sue. We did some shopping and then went for lunch at a beach side kiosk. Tomorrow we leave and head for the Hunter Valley where we will spend 3 days to do some wine sampling. We took Hugo for a swim just before dinner and we had the whole wide long expanse of beach all to ourselves.  Ralph jumped into the water as well and I reckon that he’s crazy because it’s the South Pacific Ocean here and it’s freezing.  I must admit though, he didn’t stay in for long, one dunk and out.  We’ll see you at the vineyards next.