Karuah, New South Wales.

Karuah Jetty

As we were attending a funeral in Newcastle we decided to stay in a Garden Unit at BIG4 Karuah Jetty Holiday Park. We found the location ideal as it was a shorter drive for us from home and an easy drive to the airport and Newcastle. 

Garden Units BIG4 Karuah Jetty Holiday Park

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The caravan park has direct access to a scenic jetty, small boat ramp and a short mangrove boardwalk.

Karuah Jetty and small boat ramp.

Mangrove Boardwalk 

Quite a few Welcome Swallows have made the jetty their home and pelicans seem content to hang around the oyster shacks.

Welcome Swallows on the jetty.

Pelicans snoozing in front of an oyster shack.

In both the caravan park and the town of Kuruah there were large numbers of lorikeets. There were plenty of Rainbow Lorikeets but these were outnumbered by huge numbers of Musk Lorikeets.

Musk Lorikeet

Longworth Park is a pleasant picnic area in town on the Karuah River between an oyster outlet and the Karuah Bridge. We were informed by a local that this is a good location for dolphin watching but we didn't manage to see any. The park has an enclosed swimming area, toilets and a children's playground.

Specialist oyster boats on the Karuah River.

Enclosed swimming area.

We noticed a large nest in an electricity pylon across the river. There was an Eastern Osprey perched near the nest and later we realised that there was a juvenile in the nest.

Eastern Osprey in the nest.