Hobart Beach; more great NSW camping
There’s a lot of different NSW national park camp sites that you can stay at along the coast, and many of them are pretty good. In our quest for the best camp sites in New South Wales, we spent two nights at Hobart Beach, and thought it was a really decent place to stay.
Where is Hobart Beach?
You’ll find this NSW national park campground only about 20 minutes north of Merimbula, almost right on the coast. The camp site itself is located next to Wallagoot Lake, and from the furthest car park, about 500 metres to Hobart Beach itself.
Do you need a 4WD?
No, absolutely not. The road in is primarily bitumen, with a short section of gravel that is in decent condition. There were plenty of 2WD vehicles here, with no issues at all.
Bookings and costs
Like the rest of the NSW national park campgrounds, you need to book online to stay here, and it was $37 for our family of 4 per night. It’s $12.30 each adult though, with the national park entry on top unless you have an annual pass.
Don’t be like the people in site 21 who had not left by the check out time, were no where to be found, didn’t have a booking for the previous night, and then stayed another night without paying. I was hoping the rangers would come by and give them a fine, as we had to ring and move sites.
What’s Lake Wallagoot like?
This lake is pretty picturesque, especially on a day with no wind. We didn’t get the paddleboard out, but you could paddle out most of the way to the ocean, which would be neat to do. From the camp ground, there are a number of places you can walk down to the lake, and most of the entrances are quite sandy too, which makes for easy, kid friendly swimming.
Amenities at Hobart Beach
This campground has the usual drop toilets, but its also got a number of camp kitchens, and hot showers in the main amenities block, which was pretty amazing. You only get 4 minutes, but that’s more than enough to have a really decent shower in the bush, and it did take the sting of paying nearly $40 a night off, marginally.
Would we recommend a stay?
We liked this place. There’s plenty of wallabies and kangaroos around, a number of big monitors, bird life and the camp sites are decent. It was quiet when we stayed, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d come back again, for sure.
We thought Congo Campground was better in terms of views, but it doesn’t have hot showers, and is a lot busier and smaller.
