The Prop's Perigrinations : 8 September 2025

Lakes Entrance to Pambula Beach

(via Cann River & Bombala)

Up betimes to say a fond farewell to the "Cunningham Shore". Upon returning the keys, the "landlady" informed me that the staff had cleaned both our front and rear windscreens. While the Prop was unfailingly polite at this disclosure he was nevertheless concerned that the staff may have taken a dim view of the Prop's management of the Tadpole!

Mrs P was very keen to visit the Platypus Reserve at Bombala in the neighbouring State of New South Wales. Accordingly we programmed the GPS for that location which inevitably took us through the Victorian town of Cann River where we stopped for "elevenses"

The impressive Cann River Hotel

The somewhat less impressive (but nevertheless nourishing) Cann River Bakery

Bombala has an elevation of about 775 metres (2542 feet) but it was surprisingly warm - about 21c.

Interesting factoid: Bombala is located 530 kilometres from Melbourne and 520 kilometres from Sydney.

The Main Street of Bombala - a bit less interesting...

The Hotel Bombala

Intriguing signwriting but no clock at the Hotel Bombala

The Imperial Hotel, Bombala - probably now larger than necessary?

We attended the Bombala Platypus Reserve but were bitterly disappointed. Apparently one's best chance of seeing platypuses (platypii?) is first thing in the morning or just before sunset! Nevertheless, Mrs P had a bloody good look just in case!

Mrs P on the lookout for platypii! (There were about the same number of platypii as there were anglers at Rhyll the previous day)

The Bombala Platypus Reserve is more or less co-located with the Bombala Racecourse - at which, it would seem, there have been no meetings held recently

We left Bombala at about 2.00pm and negotiated a very winding and steep downhill road back to the NSW coast at Pambula Beach and checked in to our cabin at the "G'Day Discovery Park" at Pambula Beach.

Pambula Beach