Malabar Weir, near Moruya

Autumn in Moruya

Ring The Bell!

At 3 pm on Tuesday afternoons, the bell is rung to signify the beginning of trading at the Moruya Farmers Market.

Off to fish

Late afternoon shadows, Moruya breakwater

The channel at Moruya

The exit from the Moruya River to the sea

Fishing off the breakwater, Moruya

Gulls on the Moruya Breakwater

At the end of the Breakwater, North Moruya

The breakwater at North Moruya

A walk along the breakwater at North Moruya

Street food, Moruya

Outside the Shire Council building at Moruya there are 5 raised planting beds containing herbs, leafy vegetables and edible flowers.

People are encouraged to pick the produce for their own use.

Horse poo, Moruya

Just back up the horse, and fresh poo into the bag?

Curious cattle, Moruya

Mermaid of Moruya

Moruya's main street features a series of large wooden carvings by Bryan Carrick. This one is in Apex Park.

Graveyard, Toragy Point, Moruya South Head

Grave of Joseph Louttit and two of his children, Lavinea and John. Louttit. Joseph and Flett Louttit, from the Orkney Islands established a granite quarry on the Moruya River's south bank in the late 1850s.

From there came the granite for the Bank of New South Wales (1868) and General Post Office (1872), both in Martin Place in Martin Place, Sydney, and the base of the Captain Cook statue in Hyde Park.

Town sign, Moruya

Why the Sydney Harbour Bridge? Because the granite for the pylons was quarried at Moruya. 

"Shannon View", Moruya

This house, visible from Larry's Mountain Road, off the Princes Highway to the north of Moruya, sits on the banks of Mullenderee Creek, part of the Moruya River system. It was the property of the first non-Aboriginal resident of Moruya, an Irish tailor named Patrick Flanagan, who settled there in 1829.  Flanagan leased farms to Irish migrants and established a Catholic school for their children.

History writes that Flanagan arrived in NSW in 1827, with enough capital to qualify for a land grant. Governor Darling, however, refused to grant land to a man of Flanagan's class. Flanagan travelled to Ulladulla by boat and then travelled overland with the help of Aboriginal guides.

Is it down there? Moruya Golf Course

Found it!

The Pink Gates, Moruya

A bronze plaque at the site says: 

"The Moruya Show was first held on land at the corner of Murray and Evans Street, Moruya in 1877 and was later moved to a site now used for Moruya Bowling Club in River Street. The Moruya Jockey Club held its first meeting on the present show ground site on 26th & 27th January, 1887. 

"The Pink Gates" were first built as the entrance to the show ground in River Street, Moruya and moved to their present site in 1914. For many years they were an icon in our village and a meeting place for the young folk of Moruya. 

The gates fell into disrepair and were removed on (sic) the 1960s and the new gates were erected on 17th March 2010 using the old gate located in the Moruya Historical Society as a template. "