5th, 6th. 7th, 8th, 9th, January 2015 Moruya

Moruya is just South of Batemans Bay and turned out to be a very pleasant place, on the way down we went off the main highway in through a lot of small country towns it was a much more interesting trip, the countyside is green and lush, the cattle looked very happy.
The word Moruya is aboriginal for black swan and there certainly a lot of them there, it is only a small town sitting on a river.
The night we arrived we had another big thunder storm I really am starting to believe that they are following us.
The first day there we did the normal things and explored the area to see where everthing was and the condition of the boat ramps and the bar at the mouth of the river, good weathet it didn't look too bad.
Second day we headed out in the boat,  easy going no wind but a nice size swell and guess who didn't have any qwells. We were having the best fishing fun we had in a long time we caught a lot of wrass, leather jackets, gurnard and some nice flathead. We were out for approx 4 hrs with me trying to keep my stomach down but in the end it got too much so we went in and fished the river without any success, they had been getting a lot of rain approx 16 inches in 2 weeks so apparently there wad too much freshwater in the river. Later we found a chemist to buy qwells. We plan on going out again tomorrow.
When we woke at 5 the next morning the fog was so thick it would have been impossible to see the bar to get out safely, it didn't start to clear till after 8 o'clock so we went to the beach and had a swim and went for a walk on some of the larger beaches.
Next day we were up early the day was clear, we headed off, as we were going to the boat ramp there was several boats headed back to town, at the ramp I asked a guy who was about to launch his larger boat, did those others know something we didn't, he said he had checked the bar was ok but it wasn't do good out.
We launched on the way out we met 2 more boats coming back the guys in the boats gave us the thumbs down, when we got to the bar it was good but as soon as we got around the corner Merv just said hang on and he done a big uturn and back in, it was pretty nasty.  We drifted back up the river trying for a fish, while we sat there numerous boats went up past to go out only to be back 5 minutes later.
When we got the boat back to camp it was explore time again up along the coast between Batemans Bay and Moruya. One of the beautiful beaches we found was closed ad there had been a dead whale with sharks feeding, they towed the whale out it sunk and they couldn't see the sharks as the water was too deep, they had their jet skis out and in the end the helicopter, it was a bit of a nuisance as there was a great snorkeling area but unfortunately it was were the whale was the life guards said it wouldn't be safe for at least another week.
We continued down the road a little and came across Tamokin Cove a beautiful swim beach,  waves not too big, rocky outcrops for snorkeling everything you need at the beach, we decided we would go back there the following day with the canoes.
The next day when we got to the cove we took the canoes out, this was a little different as there was reef around the cove in places with not a lot of spots to go through, when we got out there was a sizable swell with the odd wave breaking, I thought hell no this is crap I am going in, as I started in Merv called out that I had a big breaking wave bearing down on me, I have never paddled so fast as I didn't want to be thrown onto the rocks. I was pretty hot by the time I pulled the canoe up on the beach so I went for a swim, the water was crisp and fresh but very nice, when Merv came in he joined me, then picnic time and another swim.
The last two nights we had huge thunderstorms, one had the best lightning I tried to get some photos with no luck.