Valentine's Day 2025

Happy Valentine's Day

Scott and I booked a couple of nights in Scamander in the East Coast for over Valentine's Day.

We left the house in the morning of 14th February and started our journey. There were bush fires burning in the west coast so the sky was tainted with smoke.

On the way there we stopped off at Fingal to stretch our legs, it was a small place so we didn't stay long.

We continued the journey before stopping at St Mary's to eat our lunch.

We arrived at Scamander at 2.15 pm, Scott parked the car while I went to take photos of the beach outside our beach hut.

The beach hut that we were staying in was lovely, very coastal looking and within walking distance to a beautiful beach, although what we found odd was they don't supply shampoo!

Hollow beach

After unpacking we took a drive through to St Helens which is a 20 minutes drive from Scamander. Enroute, we stopped at Hollow beach conservation area in Beaumaris.

Hollow beach

St Helens

Then headed to St Helens, where we had a wander about, as we had decided to go to the Lobster Shack in Bicheno for tea, we didn't stay long.

St Helens

Four Mile Creek

We then started on to Bicheno. We stopped at four mile creek to watch some surfers.

We arrived at the lobster shack at 6 pm. We ordered the seafood share platter again, we had that the last time we ate there in June 2024, it had gone up in price by $30, but it was a decent amount and it was delicious.

We had lobster Mornay, Oysters Kilpatrick, prawns, pickled octopus, squid rings, crumbed fish, smoked salmon, garlic butter abalone and chips.

We thoroughly enjoyed it.

Waiting in anticipation!

They also got their bellies filled.

We left there at 7 pm and took a quick swing in past the Bicheno Blow hole, the waves weren't very big so it wasn't performing as dramatic as we have seen it in the past, we lingered there for about 10 minutes before heading back to the beach hut.

We got showered and ready for bed before watching Saw 4 and then Ghost.

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