Thursday 13 February 2025
Photos courtesy of KarenM, DonnaG and Max. Walk Report courtesy Walk Leader KarenM.
The first walk of 2025 was a social walk in Narooma – starting at the Boardwalk on the north side of Wagonga Inlet and finishing at the Golf Club, where we had lunch.
This short easy walk gets lovelier every time we visit. We started by watching a couple of fur seals playing in the shallows next to the boat ramp with a third hauled up under a mangrove nearby.
The Boardwalk skirts the inlet and leads to a shared path over the bridge to Narooma’s new Inlet Living Shoreline development. Here the existing failing rock wall has been replaced with banks of low-growing riparian vegetation to create an environmentally friendly seawall. There’s also a new boardwalk, jetty and pontoon to explore.
The path continues past the commercial jetty, with its charter and dive boats and where the giant stingrays and a few more playful seals hang out around the fish cleaning table. We stopped at the nearby park for a break before walking out to the southern breakwall. Here we found the big rock with a hole roughly the shape of Australia in it, and quite a few more seals, either sunbaking along the breakwall or frolicking in the current.
From there we climbed the stairs to the lookouts with fantastic views of the coast north and south, and over the inlet. Then we skirted the golf course which is situated along the cliffline, and finished at the Golf Club.