Life is so full of surprises around every corner! After visiting Newcastle to have my mammogram this morning I asked Wayne to turn down a road that had an interesting stone entrance to it not far from where we are staying. Wow. Travelling through this entrance called Admiralty Avenue the exceptionally wide street was planted with norfolk pines both sides and towards the end there was another stone entrance!! We also noticed that the street were arranged on a hexagon shape.
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| This is the entrance from the beach end |
We travelled on and found a large sweeping beach/bay with large boats and yachts moored. Travelling on we then discovered more stone structures at the end of the bay and overlooking Port Stephens. A Temple with large stone planters and stables, fences, more out buildings and then came upon Tanilba House circa 1831 would you believe. It has been restored and is heritage listed with special bookings one can look through there. As I was curious about the history, I googled Tinalba House and apparently a governor sent to the area, built this with the help of convicts and the local aboriginals lived there also without any problems. We were both so glad we drove through the entrance to find these interesting stone formations in the district. Tanilba meaning "Place of white flowers"
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| Tanilba House Circa 1831 |
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| The Temple |
Relaxing after our drive today we decided as the weather had heated up again to the high 20's, it was time to try out the swimming pool at the park. Just delightful to cool off then sun oneself lounging around with nothing much to do!!!
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