Avoca Beach·NSW
Avoca Beach Picture Theatre
An independent cinema running since 1948, a hundred metres from the sand. The wet weather answer.
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Coffs Harbour·NSW
The Big Banana
A 1964 roadside banana with a waterpark, a toboggan run and an ice creamery attached.
Coffs Harbour·NSW
Coffs Harbour Butterfly House
A walk-through tropical butterfly enclosure. Fully undercover, so it works in the rain.
Kangaroo Valley·NSW
Hampden Bridge, Kangaroo Valley
A sandstone-towered suspension bridge over the Kangaroo River, built in 1898 and still in use.
Huskisson·NSW
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum
Huskisson's indoor option, built around a 1911 Sydney ferry that was made a few hundred metres up the creek. Open every day.
Kangaroo Valley·NSW
Kangaroo Valley Pioneer Village Museum
A whole village of late 1800s buildings beside Hampden Bridge: a dairy, a forge, a schoolhouse and a settler's cottage.
Lismore·NSW
Lismore Regional Gallery
A serious regional gallery in a town most people drive past on the way to the coast.
Tweed Heads·NSW
Point Danger, Tweed Heads
The headland on the state border, with the Captain Cook Memorial and a view both ways up the coast.
Port Stephens·NSW
Tomaree Head Summit Walk
A steep 30 minute climb to a WWII gun emplacement, with the whole bay and the islands below.
Hervey Bay·QLD
Urangan Pier
An 868 metre timber pier out into the bay, built for the sugar trade and now for fishing and sunrises.
Huskisson·NSW
Voyager Memorial Park
A waterfront park in the middle of Huskisson, and the memorial to the 82 men lost when HMAS Voyager sank off Jervis Bay in 1964.
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