It was only a 15 minute drive to the entrance of Booderee National Park from where we were staying in Sanctuary Point. Even better, due to COVID-19 restrictions all the campsites were closed and there was free entry. Closed campsites meant that the park was very quiet, and we ended up going to the park four times during our stay.

There were a lot of different areas in the park and we visited pretty much all of them during our visits. Walking wise, we hiked the Murrays Beach Track and the Headland Circuit Track. We also did short walks at Stony Creek, Cape St George Lighthouse, Cave Beach, and Booderee Botanic Gardens.

Bherwerre Beach was also located inside the park boundaries, and we went there multiple times via various different access points.

During our four visits to the park, we saw an echidna EVERY single visit – which is unprecedented! In fact, we visited this park once back in 2010 – and at that time we also saw an echidna – so that’s five echidnas in five visits – a feat never likely to be repeated!

Technically the park is actually located in Jervis Bay Territory, which is an ‘internal federal territory’ – meaning that it’s not part of New South Wales and it is run by the Federal Government.

This anomaly came about in 1909 when it was decided that the Australian Capital Territory needed to include a port, and so NSW signed over this area to the Federal Government, along with the area where Canberra was going to be built .