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| The road to Booderee National Park in Jervis Bay, where we spent five nights camping over New Year's week. The park is jointly managed by the Australian government and the Wreck Bay Aboriginal community, who won back ownership of their native land in 1995. |
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| Despite thousands of Aussies on holiday jamming the coastline, we managed to find a stretch of gorgeous, nearly deserted beach... |
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| ...where we could even out our tans! |
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| Evening at Cape St. George Lighthouse, built in 1860. |
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| The lighthouse has a rather morbid history, with not only dozens of shipwrecks occurring along the rocky coast of Jervis Bay, but also a series of eerily tragic events befalling the families of lighthouse keepers. |
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| A wallaby enjoys supper near our Cave Beach camp site. |
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| We enjoyed an excellent tour of the Booderee Botanic Gardens, where we learned some of the native Koori people's medicinal uses of native plants, such as treating jelly fish stings. |
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| Fan Palm |
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| Fern fronds can be used to soothe insect bites. |
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| Paperbark tree |
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