Trailer-Yachts, Neranie Sands The Lakes Way Bungwahl Store open 7 days. MYALL RIVER Boats travelling up the Myall River Keep to the centre of the river on the straights. Keep to PROVISIONS The key to enjoying the outside of the curves and pass on-coming boats port to Petrol ,diesel, beer and food. need to be able to clear the Hawks Nest Bridge Bungwahl the lakes is to take in everything you 10.6m. More clearance can be gained by waiting port (keep to the right-hand side of the channel). There is Shoppers and their purchases will need and take out all rubbish. for low tide which occurs 75 minutes after Fort an 8 knot speed limit in the Myall River between Witts Island E 152˚ 20' returned to boat ramp free. Food, gas and ice can be bought at Denison. and Tamboy. Boolambayte Tea Gardens, Bulahdelah, Myall
1.4 E 152˚ 25' When leaving Tamboy for the Broadwater beware of the Boats with a draught of less than a metre can Mayers Mayers Hill Russels Bay Fishermans Shores and Bungwahl Store. Food expect not to touch bottom at any state of the tide. submerged rock training walls to port and starboard of the 2.0 Neranie can also be bought from Annies Bay Point Corrigans Co Op With a draught of 1.5m going aground a few times channel. 134 2.2 Bay Eatery, Nerong. Dining out is possible Bay (prawns) on the trip would be normal. Boats with a draught H Gnahpeang H at Myall Shores and Annies. CAMPING Some camping sites have toilets and garbage Dairy Point of up to 2 metres will need to travel at optimum 3.8 2.3 facilities. A fee is charged to camp at all campsites in the 3.0 3.5 WATER The water in the lakes times and will need some determination to make it 3.3 Lamins Point National Park. This fee is currently about $12.50 for 2 is brackish and too salty to to Tamboy. The river bottom is soft mud and sand 2.4 Seal Rocks Road persons and $2 for each extra person per night. Boats with weed. There are plenty of snags, particularly drink. Soap will lather in it. anchored adjacent to campsites may be deemed to be using Little Corrigans near the banks of the river. Keep your wash to a Fig Tree Point Neranie Water is available at Tea the facilities. Garbage Bins are provided at Bungwahl, Mungo Island Head 3.7 minimum and watch out for other craft on the river. <448> Head Gardens, Bulahdelah, Myall Brush, Korsmans, Myall Shores and Violet Hill. Camping, The water is muddy with 3.6 h Shores, Mungo Brush and BULAHDELAH boating and swimming in the Myall Lakes are first class. The visibility of about 0.6m. 3.6 Neranie+ Sands Violet Hill. Lake system is fragile and cannot withstand abuse. Visitors Stag Island 67 Corrigans BOMBAH The rise and fall of the are advised to practice minimum impact camping by using 3.6 Island tide is the full amount at 2.4 3.7 3.6 S 32˚ 25' stoves. No wood fires are allowed at Mungo Bush or White S 32˚ 25' Hire boats Hawks Nest tapering to MYALL LAKES SYSTEM Facilities are minimal and primitive. Bombah BROADWATER Tree Bay. The collection of firewood is banned in the Myall <447> 2.3 almost nil at Tamboy. Broadwater supports the most number of campers and boats. The water Lake National Park (bring you own). No domestic pets. Most Near Tamboy the current is cloudy with visibility of about 1.5m. The water level is governed by 3.0 3.7 3.6 <421> camp-sites have resident possums and goannas. They will 3.6 Rabbit Point 4 Sandy Point may not change direction rainfall and there is no tidal rise and fall. Bombah Broadwater is the best h Bridge chew through canvas, paper, cardboard, and plastic bags to 6m in which case it always lake for catching prawns. The "Mungo Regatta" is held off Mungo Brush 3.6 2.5 H get at your biscuits, bread and fruit. Clearance for 3 days starting Boxing Day. This area is then restricted and there is 3 flows down river. Pats Double Islands considerable noise from fast boats. The whole of the lakes is within the 3.6 Emergency Dolphins can be seen as Burrah Burrah <452> helicopter BUSHWALKING The publication "A Walkers Guide to the Myall Lakes National Park and the waterways are also controlled by the Head 3.6 3.6 far up the river as 3.6 <445> Point landing ground Bombah Broadwater. Mungo Track" by H. Pacy, M. Rowe and P. Pritchard Waterways authority who police such things as speed limits, licences, McGraths Bay <402> describes a walk from Mungo Brush to Hawks Nest. At regulations and safety equipment. 4 knots 4.7 Reedy Point 3.7 Mungo Brush there are short walks to the Ocean, Tamboy, The water clears through Boolambayte Lake and is perfectly clear in the Bird Island 3.7 speed limit Sheddens 2 (Upper) MYALL RIVER and Rainforest. Violet Hill can be climbed from the camping Myall Lake. After floods the level of the lakes may rise 0.9m. Landing through Tamboy area. A track from Johnsons Beach leads to Johnsons Hill. 3.6 MYALL LAKE Johnsons 3.6 3.7 Tamboy<258> There is a track linking Tickerabit, Shelly Beach, Johnsons Vessels drawing less than 3.7 3.8 Chinamans Island Beach and Mungo Brush. A track from the "haunted house" 1.5m may be able to enter this 3.6 2.2 4.6 3.3 Long Point in Kataway Bay ascends Kataway Hill. There are a number creek for a quiet anchorage Bibby Harbour 72 Nob of short walks at Nerong (details from Annies). Pretty 2.8 Boolambayte Kataway 3.6 Beware of snags Flat <256> 3.7 and overhanging
Swan Point Long Point Hill 1.8 Tamboy Reach Bay 5.0 <446> 2.1 POWER CABLES 2.4 Bay 84 2 CANOEING Open stretches of water are to be avoided in branches One Horse Sands 12.2m ABOVE M.H.W. Limestone 2.6 3.3 Blossom book Cairnand entrance with visitors to Kataway windy weather. The most sheltered areas are The Myall 3.7 2.6 E 152˚ 15' Brambles • No speed limits apply on River, Nerong Creek and Boolambayte Creek. By keeping Point Hill small limestone cave Bay 4 <257> Creek Shelly Point 100 this section of the Myall River. close to the shore, the whole of the Myall Lakes system can h 2 Green be explored in minute detail. Canoes can be rented from 5.5 McGraths <254> Jetty Sunnyside <269> • Caution, the river is narrow Myall Shores (049) 97-4495, and Annies (049) 97-4194. The 2.4 McGraths Hill Big Gum and winding, sight distance is best sections of the Myall River for canoeing are Tamboy to <441> h 3.7 Island 100 Brasswater 2.5 Brasswater and Tea Gardens to the Pine Plantation. The Smiths Shelly + h poor on sharp bends. 3.7 2.4 220˚ Magnetic 40˚ 3.7 upper Myall River between Bulahdelah and River Mouth is 87 Hill Beach 2.7BOOLAMBAYTE LAKE 3.6 h Pigeon Pt. 2.0 2.7 3.6 + 2 <255> • Vessels should travel at very quiet, the greatest danger being fast boats. T <251> Clarks 3.7 3.6 <246>1.5 such a speed as to create Bay Bungaree PORT MARKER Fl G 2.2 S 32˚ 35' <247> minimum wash. 2.1 Bay <444> 3.2 3.6 2.3 Tickerabit SEWAGE No Sewage is to be discharged STARBOARD MARKER Cherry 2.1 • Underwater snags are a h 2 2.1 into the lakes. All boats should have Tree 2.1 3.7 hazard to anchoring. 1.8 123 Dalbys Palmers Bay 2.8 holding tanks which can be emptied into a 2.0 T BEACON 3.7 BOOLAMBAYTE LAKE mobile barge, the Independence. The <443> Long Reach • Vessels drawing less than 3.6 Violet Hill service is free. The Independence can be <245> NUMBERED BEACON 2 1.5m should be able to T h Devils Elbow 2.3 contacted on marine radio or hailed. There Bay 3.6 Rooke navigate to Bulahdelah. is a shore-based sewage pump-out Wallaby Joes <442> BOAT RAMP 3 Island 1.9 1.7 pontoon next to the boat ramp at Myall Speed4.6 limit 4 knots through 1.8 Snakes 1.8 Shores. It is self-serve and free. 3.6 1.7 BUSHWALK 1.4 h Old Gibber Track RIVER SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN h Violet Hill Passage ProfessorsCove 3.3 1.7 H TOILET 2.1 Location When full range is 1.5m Time lag (later) 3.6 Goat T H Tea Gardens 1.43m 1 hour Korsmans Sheep T 3.6 Island Speed8 knots Limit 2.5
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