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Centrally located between Newcastle and Sydney, being some 99 km from Sydney, The Entrance is an easy 90 minutes drive from either city.
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| The Entrance - Aboriginal History | |
Through their cultural traditions, Aboriginal people maintain their connection to their ancestral lands and waters. In 1796 shipwrecked fishermen were fed and cared for by kindly local Aborigines who guided them most of the way home. On return to Sydney they told tales of a white woman living amongst the aboriginal peoples, Tuggerah Lake was discovered when an expedition was set up to find the woman. Dispossessed of their land and killed off by white mans diseases, the last of the local aboriginal people to use Lake Tuggerah, 'Billy Fawker' died in 1875.
On 24 may, 1828, Henry Holden was promised the first land grant in the area now known as The Entrance, but the same land had already been leased to one Willoughby Bean whose lease was later rescinded in favour of Holden. Holden set up as a dairy farm called 'Towoon' on the 640 square acre lot, stretching from Tuggerah Lake to the current day Toowoon Bay Road. The inventory of the property included named convicts, dairy monies, agistment of ponies, all dairy implements, all houses, outhouses, edifices and buildings.
The Entrance is named because the area is the entrance of the coastal waterways into the ocean. Tuggerah Lake, 12 km long and 8 km wide, is part of a coastal lagoon of an interconnected lake system, 80 sq km in size, but less than 2 metres deep.
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The waterways of The Entrance are ideal for water-skiing, canoeing, sailing, rowing and sail boarding. Fishing from the foreshore is excellent and prawns are plentiful in mid-summer: easily snared at night with a lamp and prawning net by wading into the shallows. There is an Arts and Craft Market on Sundays, the Tuggerah Lakes Memorial Club and the Long Jetty Sailing Club is at the northern end of Tuggerah Parade and the Shell museum, has an extensive shell collection.
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Shelly Beach is great for surfing, Blue Bay, Toowoon Bay, Little Bay, and Bateau Bay are all pleasant bays and beaches. Crabneck Point Lookout, offers magnificent coastal views, some 6km out of town; Nora Head Lighthouse, is attractive automated lighthouse built in 1903; Toukley, is an unspoiled coastal hamlet and Munmorah State Recreation Area, has signposted bushwalking trails with magnificent coastal views.The Wyrrabalong National Park covers 597 hectares with a considerable diversity of fauna and flora, including the lace monitor, flying fox, squirrel glider, diamond python, possum, bandicoot, New Holland Mouse, antechinus and a variety of birdlife.
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