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A town where everyone talks but nobody saw a thing....
People go missing more then they should...
the local serial killer who 100% did that first girl Amanda & is a massive suspect in Kylee's disappearance....
Surrounding South West Rocks... Home & Away with Underbelly tones never far from the surface..
Only reason many move to Kempsey is due to hiding out from something or someone..
The local Cops are not to be trusted, they're the first ones who'd dump you strandard in middle of nowhere..
Local Primary school is built behind Police Station.. massive Pot grow area..back in the 80's Police would do property raids & then burn the Pot off in the back of the Police yard with the smoke blowing directly into our Year 4 & 5 students classroom..
Loved growing up there, would I raise my kids there? Hell no..
For me it’s the prison. There’s a kind of colonial creepiness about the place. Look around in a Sunday morning and the 3 or 4 people you see wandering around the (closed) shops are killing time before visitation.
Nah that’s just in the center of town.
Great Thai food is open until 8 but yeah, it's pretty crappy besides that.
Badly phrased. As well as ALSO locking it. I always lock doors!
Eerie is a good word for it. I once drove there with a friend and her young daughter, and the kid said "the trees look funny here". She knew what's up!
They all look to be dying, to me. But kind of fascinating in their decrepitude.
They don't have the vibe that, say, Carcoar, Millthorpe, Sofala have managed to get. Which may be a good thing. Those places are too touristy and almost kitsch.
Canowindra strikes a good balance.
I prefer Rylestone to Kandos.
Wish the rail line to Mudgee and on to Gulgong was restored.
Beautiful scenic trip.
Molong is another beautiful Central West small town. Carcoar, as I've mentioned. Oberon. Grenfell.
Blayney,
Got any details? I am aware of the famous murder, but not of anything else?
Head through Torrington village toward Silent Grove to find the Mystery Face walk. The face is impressive, the area is creepy as hell.
Heavy vehicles working in the bush very late at night. Not near any kind of construction sites.
He was bloody everywhere wasn't he? I heard that he'd been hiding out in Tamworth and Armidale too.
The murders haven't helped.
Always imagined being all dolled up and dancing to a jazz band in the ballroom.
There's a been a few things happen in Lithgow...
So does Hilltop.
The Pogues tune Dirty Old Town plays in my head every time I have the misfortune of going through the town
Yes I was passing through Lithgow recently on my way to Sydney and had this exact thought.
Great company call to put it out on the through road rather than in town.
Virtually everyone stops there.
Nah that happens out Casino the assaults.
I’m not from Lismore just pass through occasionally to get to Casino. So might be because I’m not from there
Tumbarumba is just inbred. Defs weird, not creepy tho
We do boring towns well.
The scenery there is very pretty
If love to hear their stories and compare them against what I know and experienced myself. I hate driving on that road. The one to Port doesn't bother me at all 🤷
The one story that creeped me out as a child? I was about 8 and I was asleep on the lounge. Sort of. I was listening to the adults talk. My GF was one of the most straight laced guys who had fought in WW2 I heard them talking about a call an ambulance had, they'd had to travel along the winding road that leads to the highway and halfway along that road they came to a corner went round it and in the middle of the road it looked like someone had buried something. Something of human form. They got pretty freaked out and the way this hole? Was dug they couldn't pass without driving on it in some way. The roads are very narrow in places and it's very windy. Anyway they turned around went back to Wauchope got the local copper and went back out to find the road in perfect condition. There was no way the tar had been dug up and replaced in such a short time. That freaked me out so bad even as an adult I would be creeping out the whole time I'd be driving on that road even now.
Yep, that's it. You walk down the street and feel like you're by eyed by drugged out zombies. My family cleared the land and started the first farms in the area. It's really sad what it's become...
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Kemps creek and surrounds has a bit of that about it too. Maybe not now it’s getting bulldozed
I will check it out! Thanks for the advice
I'll bite. What on Earth would they be doing?
It does help that everyone knows who the fulla that did it is
Jeeze that’s straightforward then..!
Good for a toilet stop too!
Cant argue with that
I've only been on it once. That was quite enough thank you very much. Something about the way gum trees hang over the road gives me the creepy creeps
thanks. more stories plz.
Clearing space for a drug lab, digging mass graves, unearthing an ancient monolith housing a dark god. The list goes on…
Oh I hope it's the last one. That would be awesome
Thredbo? Perisher? Selwyn?
And where do you stay - very expensive to stay onsite usually…
There isn't really anything cost effective about a snow holiday. They know.how to gouge the cash out of you down there.
You may save some coin by going in the office season. Either before snow season starts or after it ends. But then of course you run the risk of your snow trip becoming a slushy-mud trip instead.
What are you trying to achieve? Just to see snow and snow play? Corin Forest is close to Canberra and you can have a Canberra holiday + a day in Corin Forest.
It is very small though and only suitable for first timers or if you just want to do toboggan.
From Sydney but stopped going to NSW skifields 15 years ago. For the cost of staying in Jindy and driving to Perisher every day I can stay ski-in-ski-out in VIC with way less crowds.
If you just want to see snow and play around, go to Thredbo so you can kick around in the village. If you are skiing for a week then Falls Creek is better. 2 weeks? I'd consider flying to Queenstown.
Bit late in the year, You could stay in Cooma, get up early and drive the 90 minutes to Selwyn at a minimum.
Or stay in Jindabyne and have a shorter drive
If it’s just to see snow and play in it, a holiday to Melbourne or regional Vic and popping into one of their smaller or toboggan only fields will probably work out cheaper, particularly as a cost per day for a holiday.
Mt Baw Baw is close to Melbourne, small but cheaper accom, Mt Buffallo is snow play and day trippable from pretty towns like Mrytlesford or Bright.
I guess you meant skiing right? Japan and China are some of the cheaper options and skiing season will begin soon. Skiing in Canada / USA isn't too expensive either, but the flights and onsite accommodations cost a lot more.
I grew up going cross country/Nordic skiing and we often stayed in Jindabyne in whatever Airbnb equivalent there was in the early 2000s.
We'd go off peak holiday season (usually September) and go to some places near Guthega Dam, or Mt Stilwell in Charlotte's Pass, but Smiggins and Perisher both have fun trails that are maintained by the Nordic clubs for free!
Rent skis in Cooma from Rhythm Snowsports for a reasonably cheap price and have some fun! It's a bit more work than lifts and downhill, but picnicking in the snow was always so much fun and you can really go at your own pace. Plus you save $700/head on a lift pass for a week.
Stay in Canberra (or camp nearby) & go to Corrin Forest.
Go ice skating
NZ.
Just to add, if you want to do it just to check it out, the Jindy Scouts has bunkhouse accommodation that is cheap per person, and Talbingo has very cheap accommodation also but I haven't seen the state of Selwyn since before the fires.
SkiCo in Cooma is also very affordable for hire. I’d say slightly cheaper than Rhythm but double check that. Definitely cheap accommodation around town too. There are also Air BnB’s dotted around the countryside within 60-90min drive of the snow if you’re not keen on a motel but they book up so you need to get in early.
I know on the east coast, you can't see the sunset directly at the beach because the sun sets in the west.
I am always jealous of people who live in WA who get to watch a beach sunset on a daily basis.
There is however a few special beaches that face west on the east coast, because of the way the headland is facing.
Being from Sydney, i know most of them in Sydney: Milk beach, any of the beaches in watsons bay and vaucluse...
Small beaches next to Taronga Zoo.
I know some near Cronulla and near Palm beach as well.
I could go on with many more because I Absolutely love watching sunset at the beach.
My question is where else in NSW can you watch a sunset on the beach (outside of Sydney)
I'm would love to start slowly ticking them off the list over many weekends or holidays in the future.
Thank you
Here's a pic i took a few years ago at the far end of Jimmy's Beach in Hawks Nest.
[picture taken in October ](https://imgur.com/gallery/gDrfPrZ)
Likely means plenty of the other beaches in the area would give you a view as they sit east-west in the bay
"I am always jealous of people who live in WA who get to watch a beach sunset on a daily basis."
But your jealousy should be offset by their envy of our beach sunrises.
Tuggerah Lakes at the The Entrance offers good sunsets
Or you could try Lord Howe Island, which is part of NSW.
Trial Bay near South West Rocks for sure!
Lake Illawarra
Not a beach, however, Abbotsford and Cabarita have great up river sunset views you can enjoy with a drink in hand (at the Rowers and Sanders Kiosk).
La perouse, several of the beaches are great (note tho that Little Congwong is clothing optional)
[Byron bay has some beautiful evenings.](https://imgur.com/a/oa5dzLk)
Nelson Bay at Fly Point and Little Beach
Trial Bay - South West Rocks.
Old Bar
Rhino beach on the Hawkesbury Rvr.

A town where everyone talks but nobody saw a thing....

People go missing more then they should...

the local serial killer who 100% did that first girl Amanda & is a massive suspect in Kylee's disappearance....

Surrounding South West Rocks... Home & Away with Underbelly tones never far from the surface..

Only reason many move to Kempsey is due to hiding out from something or someone..

The local Cops are not to be trusted, they're the first ones who'd dump you strandard in middle of nowhere..

Local Primary school is built behind Police Station.. massive Pot grow area..back in the 80's Police would do property raids & then burn the Pot off in the back of the Police yard with the smoke blowing directly into our Year 4 & 5 students classroom..

Loved growing up there, would I raise my kids there? Hell no..

For me it’s the prison. There’s a kind of colonial creepiness about the place. Look around in a Sunday morning and the 3 or 4 people you see wandering around the (closed) shops are killing time before visitation.

Nah that’s just in the center of town.

Great Thai food is open until 8 but yeah, it's pretty crappy besides that.

Badly phrased. As well as ALSO locking it. I always lock doors!

Eerie is a good word for it. I once drove there with a friend and her young daughter, and the kid said "the trees look funny here". She knew what's up!

They all look to be dying, to me. But kind of fascinating in their decrepitude.

They don't have the vibe that, say, Carcoar, Millthorpe, Sofala have managed to get. Which may be a good thing. Those places are too touristy and almost kitsch.

Canowindra strikes a good balance.

I prefer Rylestone to Kandos.

Wish the rail line to Mudgee and on to Gulgong was restored.

Beautiful scenic trip.

Molong is another beautiful Central West small town. Carcoar, as I've mentioned. Oberon. Grenfell.

Blayney,

Got any details? I am aware of the famous murder, but not of anything else?

Head through Torrington village toward Silent Grove to find the Mystery Face walk. The face is impressive, the area is creepy as hell.

Heavy vehicles working in the bush very late at night. Not near any kind of construction sites.

He was bloody everywhere wasn't he? I heard that he'd been hiding out in Tamworth and Armidale too.

The murders haven't helped.

Always imagined being all dolled up and dancing to a jazz band in the ballroom.

There's a been a few things happen in Lithgow...

So does Hilltop.

The Pogues tune Dirty Old Town plays in my head every time I have the misfortune of going through the town

Yes I was passing through Lithgow recently on my way to Sydney and had this exact thought.

Great company call to put it out on the through road rather than in town.

Virtually everyone stops there.

Nah that happens out Casino the assaults.

I’m not from Lismore just pass through occasionally to get to Casino. So might be because I’m not from there

Tumbarumba is just inbred. Defs weird, not creepy tho

We do boring towns well.

The scenery there is very pretty

If love to hear their stories and compare them against what I know and experienced myself. I hate driving on that road. The one to Port doesn't bother me at all 🤷

The one story that creeped me out as a child? I was about 8 and I was asleep on the lounge. Sort of. I was listening to the adults talk. My GF was one of the most straight laced guys who had fought in WW2 I heard them talking about a call an ambulance had, they'd had to travel along the winding road that leads to the highway and halfway along that road they came to a corner went round it and in the middle of the road it looked like someone had buried something. Something of human form. They got pretty freaked out and the way this hole? Was dug they couldn't pass without driving on it in some way. The roads are very narrow in places and it's very windy. Anyway they turned around went back to Wauchope got the local copper and went back out to find the road in perfect condition. There was no way the tar had been dug up and replaced in such a short time. That freaked me out so bad even as an adult I would be creeping out the whole time I'd be driving on that road even now.

Yep, that's it. You walk down the street and feel like you're by eyed by drugged out zombies. My family cleared the land and started the first farms in the area. It's really sad what it's become...

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Kemps creek and surrounds has a bit of that about it too. Maybe not now it’s getting bulldozed

I will check it out! Thanks for the advice

I'll bite. What on Earth would they be doing?

It does help that everyone knows who the fulla that did it is

Jeeze that’s straightforward then..!

Good for a toilet stop too!

Cant argue with that

I've only been on it once. That was quite enough thank you very much. Something about the way gum trees hang over the road gives me the creepy creeps

thanks. more stories plz.

Clearing space for a drug lab, digging mass graves, unearthing an ancient monolith housing a dark god. The list goes on…

Oh I hope it's the last one. That would be awesome

Thredbo? Perisher? Selwyn?

And where do you stay - very expensive to stay onsite usually…

There isn't really anything cost effective about a snow holiday. They know.how to gouge the cash out of you down there.

You may save some coin by going in the office season. Either before snow season starts or after it ends. But then of course you run the risk of your snow trip becoming a slushy-mud trip instead.

What are you trying to achieve? Just to see snow and snow play? Corin Forest is close to Canberra and you can have a Canberra holiday + a day in Corin Forest.

It is very small though and only suitable for first timers or if you just want to do toboggan.

From Sydney but stopped going to NSW skifields 15 years ago. For the cost of staying in Jindy and driving to Perisher every day I can stay ski-in-ski-out in VIC with way less crowds.

If you just want to see snow and play around, go to Thredbo so you can kick around in the village. If you are skiing for a week then Falls Creek is better. 2 weeks? I'd consider flying to Queenstown.

Bit late in the year, You could stay in Cooma, get up early and drive the 90 minutes to Selwyn at a minimum.

Or stay in Jindabyne and have a shorter drive

If it’s just to see snow and play in it, a holiday to Melbourne or regional Vic and popping into one of their smaller or toboggan only fields will probably work out cheaper, particularly as a cost per day for a holiday.

Mt Baw Baw is close to Melbourne, small but cheaper accom, Mt Buffallo is snow play and day trippable from pretty towns like Mrytlesford or Bright.

I guess you meant skiing right? Japan and China are some of the cheaper options and skiing season will begin soon. Skiing in Canada / USA isn't too expensive either, but the flights and onsite accommodations cost a lot more.

I grew up going cross country/Nordic skiing and we often stayed in Jindabyne in whatever Airbnb equivalent there was in the early 2000s.

We'd go off peak holiday season (usually September) and go to some places near Guthega Dam, or Mt Stilwell in Charlotte's Pass, but Smiggins and Perisher both have fun trails that are maintained by the Nordic clubs for free!

Rent skis in Cooma from Rhythm Snowsports for a reasonably cheap price and have some fun! It's a bit more work than lifts and downhill, but picnicking in the snow was always so much fun and you can really go at your own pace. Plus you save $700/head on a lift pass for a week.

Stay in Canberra (or camp nearby) & go to Corrin Forest.

Go ice skating

NZ.

Just to add, if you want to do it just to check it out, the Jindy Scouts has bunkhouse accommodation that is cheap per person, and Talbingo has very cheap accommodation also but I haven't seen the state of Selwyn since before the fires.

SkiCo in Cooma is also very affordable for hire. I’d say slightly cheaper than Rhythm but double check that. Definitely cheap accommodation around town too. There are also Air BnB’s dotted around the countryside within 60-90min drive of the snow if you’re not keen on a motel but they book up so you need to get in early.

I know on the east coast, you can't see the sunset directly at the beach because the sun sets in the west.

I am always jealous of people who live in WA who get to watch a beach sunset on a daily basis.

There is however a few special beaches that face west on the east coast, because of the way the headland is facing.

Being from Sydney, i know most of them in Sydney: Milk beach, any of the beaches in watsons bay and vaucluse...

Small beaches next to Taronga Zoo.

I know some near Cronulla and near Palm beach as well.

I could go on with many more because I Absolutely love watching sunset at the beach.

My question is where else in NSW can you watch a sunset on the beach (outside of Sydney)

I'm would love to start slowly ticking them off the list over many weekends or holidays in the future.

Thank you

Here's a pic i took a few years ago at the far end of Jimmy's Beach in Hawks Nest.

[picture taken in October ](https://imgur.com/gallery/gDrfPrZ)

Likely means plenty of the other beaches in the area would give you a view as they sit east-west in the bay

"*I am always jealous of people who live in WA who get to watch a beach sunset on a daily basis.*"

But your jealousy should be offset by their envy of our beach sunrises.

Tuggerah Lakes at the The Entrance offers good sunsets

Or you could try Lord Howe Island, which is part of NSW.

Trial Bay near South West Rocks for sure!

Lake Illawarra

Not a beach, however, Abbotsford and Cabarita have great up river sunset views you can enjoy with a drink in hand (at the Rowers and Sanders Kiosk).

La perouse, several of the beaches are great (note tho that Little Congwong is clothing optional)

[Byron bay has some beautiful evenings.](https://imgur.com/a/oa5dzLk)

Nelson Bay at Fly Point and Little Beach

Trial Bay - South West Rocks.

Old Bar

Rhino beach on the Hawkesbury Rvr.