NSW Sapphire Coast

The  NSW South Coast is popularly known as the Sapphire Coast due to the blue sea water. This will be our planned route back to Sydney for Easter. This part of NSW is a seafood paradise, especially oysters.

Beach in front of our campground

Our first stop is Boydtown where we camped at Boydtown Caravan Park. Before long, we saw a mobile van selling seafood. Dinner decided for the night. Prawns, Oysters and salmon, which we sliced and ate raw, sashimi-style by the fire. TJ commented that the salmon was the best sashimi he had, ever.

Dinner by the fire

From this base, we ventured to Eden and Merimbula. Eden has a working wharf where fishing boats unload their catch. We saw a boat unloading seafood straight into a truck bound for Sydney Fish Market. Its ironic that to get fresh seafood that we saw today, we have to go to Sydney!

After lunching on Eden mussels and fish & chips, we drove to Merimbula. It is a much bigger town than Eden. I read that this town is popular with many baby boomers seeking a sea change from Sydney. I could see evidence of Sydney money pouring into Merimbula.

On our way back, we stopped by an oyster shed, bagging ourselves 2 dozen Sydney Rock farmed from Merimbula Lake. We paid $14/dozen for large ones and $10 for the medium-sized. These were live unshucked oysters and TJ had to re-learn his shucking skill from 3 years ago. They were yummy.