Port Stephens is an easy drive from Sydney, taking just 2.5 hours, and its 26 beaches are not the only drawcard, promises Destination NSW.
It’s most famous site is the Stockton Sand Dunes, which offer 30-metre-high sand mountains that can be explored by 4WD, quad bike and/or sand board and even by camel. There are also indigenous tours available. If careering down sandhills is not your client’s thing there is a different kind of tobogganing experience at Toboggan Hill Park, surrounded by native bush in Nelson Bay. As well as the toboggan track there is a giant maze, tractor rides, indoor rock climbing and mini golf. For golf, and sometimes with a side-helping of kangaroos and wallabies, golfers can tee off at several golf courses including the 27 holes at the championship course at Nelson Bay Golf Club. There are also the 18-hole Horizons Golf Resort and Pacific Dunes. But Destination NSW says the most spectacular adventure of the region is found in the east, on the Tomaree peninsula where there are views along the one- to three-day Tomaree Coastal Walk, as well as those sand dunes, wildlife spotting including whales, dolphins and koalas, and swimming. Port Stephens offers a lot of regional produce, craft brewers and vintners. There is also seafood at the Nelson Bay Fish Market including oysters and mud crabs as well as the lauded Rick Stein seafood restaurant at Bannisters Port Stephens.
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