Can anyone offer some tips on where around Merimbula/Pambula you can paddle?

Clearly there is the fishpen/lake at Merimbula, but what about the Pambula/Yowaka & Towamba Rivers? Any tips or best time in the tide cycle to go?

Merimbula - the paddle up into top lake at Merimbula is a nice distance run and doesn't chop up much even when the breeze is up a bit. Work your way up the channel and bear right, there are a couple of quiet coves to explore and you can head up into Boggy Creek a ways and get up close and personal with the fish life if you go quietly. Best to time it so you paddle up on the end of the incoming or top of the tide, and run back on the outflow (the current honks down through the boat channel on the outflow, and be careful under the bridge where the current can get a bit gnarly). Don't be tempted to cross the oyster beds in the bottom lake, especially if the tide is low. All sorts of submerged nasties in there (no need to ask me how I know).

Pambula - have been up the river a fair way into the lake there - the river paddle is nice but the lake is pretty boring - oyster beds, oyster beds and more oyster beds. Again, time the upriver paddle towards the top of the tide and run back downriver with it.

Don't know about Towamba.

HumanCartoon said..
Merimbula - the paddle up into top lake at Merimbula is a nice distance run and doesn't chop up much even when the breeze is up a bit. Work your way up the channel and bear right, there are a couple of quiet coves to explore and you can head up into Boggy Creek a ways and get up close and personal with the fish life if you go quietly. Best to time it so you paddle up on the end of the incoming or top of the tide, and run back on the outflow (the current honks down through the boat channel on the outflow, and be careful under the bridge where the current can get a bit gnarly). Don't be tempted to cross the oyster beds in the bottom lake, especially if the tide is low. All sorts of submerged nasties in there (no need to ask me how I know).

Pambula - have been up the river a fair way into the lake there - the river paddle is nice but the lake is pretty boring - oyster beds, oyster beds and more oyster beds. Again, time the upriver paddle towards the top of the tide and run back downriver with it.

Don't know about Towamba.

Thanks HC!