Unlike the western shore of Lake George, which is wedged up against an imposing escarpment, the eastern shore of this natural NSW gem is punctuated by a series of dramatic rocky peninsulas and hidden beaches. Tim the Yowie Man takes you there.
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00:00This is Lake George, like you've never seen it before.
00:03After first leaving the site of the old tourist wharf on the western shores at
00:11dawn and exploring the wonders of Deep Creek, one of several waterways that
00:16flow into the lake's eastern side, it's time to find out if a rocky point along
00:23the eastern shoreline lives up to its notorious reputation. So we've made it to
00:29Hurricane Point, which according to the the authors of the Town and Country
00:33Journal on the 5th of March 1892, describe it as so named after an account
00:40of the terribly choppy and dangerous sea that that gets up here even on a very
00:46moderate breeze. Well lucky today we've got almost perfectly still lovely calm
00:53conditions. Hurricane Point, not really living up to its name today.
01:00I'm hoping my next stop on this circumnavigation will live up to
01:06expectations, for I've packed my beach cow, really. Who says the Canberra region
01:12doesn't have good beaches? Have a look at this beautiful fine white sand, lovely
01:19calm conditions. Welcome to the Lake George Beach on the eastern side of the
01:25lake. It's almost as good as the beaches on the south coast.
01:32But a sun-drenched crescent of white sand isn't the only beach on this seldom
01:39visited eastern shore of the lake.
01:44One of the locations the 1892 circumnavigation of Lake George
01:50highlighted was this quartz reef, which the authors of the article refer to as
01:55the White Beach. And from a distance you can see the sun reflecting off these
02:00polished pieces of quartz from quite a distance. So yet again another very
02:07unusual feature on the eastern side of the lake that if you just drive along
02:12the western shore near or along the Federal Highway you wouldn't know this
02:17was here, a real treasure. You don't really realise how big Lake George is
02:24until you get out into the middle of it. Look at that, it's huge. You can see
02:29Geary's Gap off in the distance, Bungendore's right down here on the southern
02:33side of the lake, as far as you can see. And we're at the edge of what early
02:39European pioneers called Port Jackson, a big bay here on the northeastern side of
02:45the lake. And hopefully we're gonna find a stone wall because apparently there
02:52are some natural formations that look like giant stone walls on a point
02:56between here and Collector. Off we go.
03:01The stone walls were hidden in a forest on private property behind this beach of
03:12sun-bleached rocks, so we couldn't check them out. But on the 20-kilometre voyage
03:18down the western shore we did stumble upon a silver gull colony. Yet another
03:24surprise on Lake George that is much, much more than first meets the eye.