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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Things to do when it rains
Indoors or undercover, for the weekend the forecast ruins.
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Where to go
Every one of them
Huskisson·NSW
Stay at Bluebell, Huskisson
A four bedroom holiday house a short walk from the beach, with a pool, a sauna and a cabana.
Coffs Harbour·NSW
Coffs Harbour Butterfly House
A walk-through tropical butterfly enclosure. Fully undercover, so it works in the rain.
Nowra·NSW
The Hungry Monkey
Burgers and a bar in Nowra, and one of the reasons to stop rather than drive through.
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.
Lismore·NSW
Lismore Regional Gallery
A serious regional gallery in a town most people drive past on the way to the coast.
Hamilton Island·QLD
Qualia
The adults-only resort on the northern tip of Hamilton Island, and the reason some people come.
Kangaroo Valley·NSW
The Friendly Inn, Kangaroo Valley
The valley's pub, on the main street, with a bistro and a beer garden looking straight up at the escarpment.
Nowra·NSW
The Growers
Fresh Shoalhaven produce, a farm shop and a kitchen using what is grown around it.
Culburra Beach·NSW
The Little Snapper, Culburra Beach
Cocktails and a short menu in a surf town that does not have many of either.
Pokolbin·NSW
Tyrrell's Wines
A sixth-generation Hunter Valley cellar door, and the place to understand what Semillon does here.