Bart Bear's Blog

One thing I like about travelling is that the Oldies usually find interesting places to have lunch. Sometimes it is a picnic spot with a spectacular view and sometimes it is in interesting old buildings. This spot had a bit of both. I am sitting on a small table in one of the dining rooms in the old historic Seahorse Inn at Boydtown, near Eden in southern NSW. This place was built by convicts in 1843 for Ben Boyd. Boyd went broke soon after and the Inn gradually fell into ruin. It was restored in 1936 as Boydtown started to come back to life as a holiday place, and was renovated completely in 2006. Not many places provide seats for small bears to sit and watch boats, sea-eagles, wrens and lizards while their Oldies fill up on hamburgers and prawns (you can guess which one had what, can't you?), so I really do recommend it if you are ever travelling that way.

Labels: Eden, New South Wales, south coast