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| Swimcart Beach, Bay of Fires |
For Christmas and New Year we settled into Swimcart Beach on the east coast in the Bay of Fires area near St Helens. We arrived on the 22nd to try and beat the holiday rush but we found quite a few camps set up but not occupied and people drifted in to take up residency over the next few days.
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| Blue Wren (a regular visitor) |
Our camp was behind the beach in the ti-tree scrub which offered some shelter from the strong wind off the Tasman Sea. The area is a State Nature Reserve and the birdlife was quite unafraid of the campers with tiny birds invading our camp morning and evening looking for insects. There were Yellow-tail Black Cockatoos hanging round feeding on the banksia seed heads, Kookaburras and Boobook owls to be heard in the evenings.
The coast scenery is beautiful with curved white beaches separated by rocky promontories consisting of rounded pale grey, cream or white boulders worn by the wind and water and split by straight cracks as if sliced by a huge knife. Above high water line some of the boulders are covered in bright orange lichen which contrasts with the bright blue waters. Some beaches are better protected from the ocean swells, but others are open to the wild surf creating spectacular displays as the ocean smashes onto the rocks. Many of the beaches have lagoons behind which make sheltered swimming holes popular with holiday makers. Behind the beaches are towering forest covered hillsides.
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| Christmas campsite |
George was sitting out the front and all the kids stopped by to look him over. When he “talked back” to one of them the kid took off to tell his mum that the skeleton “telled me his name!” (I was sitting just round the corner)
The coast scenery is beautiful with curved white beaches separated by rocky promontories consisting of rounded pale grey, cream or white boulders worn by the wind and water and split by straight cracks as if sliced by a huge knife. Above high water line some of the boulders are covered in bright orange lichen which contrasts with the bright blue waters. Some beaches are better protected from the ocean swells, but others are open to the wild surf creating spectacular displays as the ocean smashes onto the rocks. Many of the beaches have lagoons behind which make sheltered swimming holes popular with holiday makers. Behind the beaches are towering forest covered hillsides. 
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