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Some Main Street Images & Identities

: Bemboka Catholic Church

: General Store Barbara Brown

: Pie Shop Angie & Linden

: Service One Credit Union & Woolley Bull Craft Cafe

: Post Office Sandra & Andrew

Bemboka Community

Bemboka Business

Bemboka People

Local Photos

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Site Visits

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GoldOz Link

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Bemboka Community Website

WELCOME TO THE BEMBOKA COMMUNITY WEB SITE - The photo above is from the south of town looking down over the valley to the north and over to the escarpment which is a spectacular feature of the local scenery.

Bemboka is the northwest gateway to the Bega Valley from Canberra and Cooma - the Snowy Mountain Highway passes directly through our town.

Bemboka - history of the name - The name covers the areas originally known as Colombo and Lyttleton. In July 1894 the Australian Government announced the new name of Bemboka. The Aboriginal meaning is "high peak". Our respects to the original inhabitants of SE Australia - the group of Aboriginal tribes known as the Yuin.

Community service

Bemboka Banquet - a Community Project sponsoring the Bemboka Show Society & promoting Local & Regional Food Related Business.
See section below for a brief overview - or go direct to Bemboka Banquet

Fire warning - A KitchenOilFire1 Please watch this could save a life - and / or your home.
Sapphire Coast Branch Ulysses Club - go to page - updated now

Jokes - (beware of your down load limit if you have a small internet plan)
Down load here - the best Youtube cow and Toyota joke we have seen.
Home made fireworks - don't try this at home kiddies - Youtube slapstick 2.2 Mb
Robin Williams - on Obamas Election - funny stuff - Youtube file
Country humour - Buddy Hacket-duck - 5.4 Mb TV clip

Special Interest
Amazing - leopard fights crocodile - see it for yourself
Awesome & interesting photos - file (400 Kb)
More amazing pictures - file (540 Kb)
Amazing driving - vertical rock and cliff driving (big file)

Bemboka Banquet

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Do You Want to be Part of History?
The aim is to produce a dinner, which will be grown, produced or manufactured by the Community of Bemboka and catered by local chefs.

You may be familiar with the eat local concepts, perhaps you have participated in a 200 km or 100 mile dinner, well we in Bemboka are going to blow them completely away.

Our intent is unique, record breaking, historic!
We plan that 90% of the innovative menu will showcase fresh produce grown, produced, manufactured or sourced from within a 15km radius of the Post Office in Bemboka. Our research indicates that this has never been done before. It is a World first, and you can pledge to be a part of it!

09!09!09! The Last meeting was at the Bemboka Hall September 9th - click here for details. Huge success with nearly 40 attending. More growers and local food based business welcome to get involved.

Proceeds to show society
Proceeds from the Bemboka Banquet will go to supporting the Bemboka Show Society and to help maintain its traditional flavour.
The evening will also provide the opportunity to raise awareness and support connections within and between like minded communities on a global scale to recognize that in order to cultivate sustainability in must begin in the collective “backyard”.

John Hobbs Bemboka.net Web Site

Mr. John Hobbs is the son of one of the towns leading business personalities (Father Jack). John devoted 8 months to the construction of a web site on Bemboka - John invites you to visit www.bemboka.net

We have made links into various areas of John's site or you can use the link above to go to the site and navigate around it yourself.

Come in and see any of the following features:

Bemboka Park historic walk - Pioneers Walk

Hobbs & Redgrave to N.H. Hobbs & Son Pty Ltd

Bemboka - War Memorial

Aerial view Bemboka township and surrounds

History of Bemboka - Bemboka Village in a Valley Book

The Bemboka town would like to extend their sincere thanks to John Hobbs for his extensive efforts and excellent results on his site - bemboka.net

: This photo is a link - click - to go to the BIG page and access BIG Newsletters.

Bemboka Improvement Group (BIG) Meeting

B.I.G. Incorporation Number: 9890221

Interested persons welcome to our enthusiastic local improvement group.

Join the friendly discussion - with a positive outlook on Bemboka's development, future improvements and needs to be influenced with community cooperation.

The next meeting begins at 7pm on Wednesday the 16th September and will last about 30 minutes to 1 hours. Location - Bemboka Community Hall in the main street.

Future meetings will be held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7pm.

B.I.G. NEWSLETTERS - hover mouse over picture of the bell on the right - then left click to go to the BIG page. Newsletters can all be down loaded there.

Local Attractions

Pipers Lookout

Location - Snowy Mountains Hwy NW Bemboka at the top of Brown Mountain.

This is a short walk to a series of lookouts over the escarpment and valley below. This part of the South East Forest National Park contains moist forests important as wildlife refuges during drought and fire.

The walks to the lookouts are wheelchair accessible - the scenery is magnificent. There are public toilet facilities at this site.

Dan Finns Hut Rainforest Walk

Location - opposite Pipers Lookout there is a road which leads down to a picnic area, Dan Finns Hut and a rain forest walk.

Note - steep difficult entry track to rainforest walk. The walk takes you across a foot bridge and through a 10 minute rainforest walk. There is a shallow stream and a small wier.

Nunnock Campground - 5 sites

Location - Top of escarpment to the NW of Bemboka off Snowy Mountain Hwy - approximately 4 km west of Pipers Lookout. Unsealed road.

Directions - From the north, turn off the Snowy Mountains Highway onto Packers Swamp Road. Follow this road south and turn left onto Cattleman's Link Trail. Follow this track through to the campsite. From the south, turn off Mt Darragh Road onto Tantawangalo Mountain Road. From here turn left onto New Line Road and follow this through to Packers Swamp Road. Turn right and head north until you reach Cattleman's Link Trail. Follow this to the campsite.

Facilities: picnic tables, wood barbecues (bring your own firewood), non-flush toilets

Water supply: Tank water is provided (not recommended for drinking).

Nunnock Swamp Walk

Explore this extraordinarily special wetland perched right on the edge of the escarpment. Stroll along an easy 5km loop and stop at the viewing platforms along the way. In late spring and early summer the wildflowers bloom in a mass of colour across the grasslands.

Plant communities: freshwater wetlands, grasslands

Alexanders Hut

Location - approximately 2 km past Nunnock Campground. Unsealed road 2wd access.

An historic timber slab hut that was occupied until the 1980s. Today it provides shelter and very basic facilities for bushwalkers and visitors. Camping on the grounds of the hut is also permitted.

Nunnock Swamp walking trail is nearby and there are opportunities for bird-watching and seeing wildflowers. It's an important site for early European cultural heritage.

Facilities: wood barbecues, non-flush toilets

Water supply: Tank water is provided but is not suitable for drinking.

Thanks to the Department of Environment & Climate Change NSW (DECC) web site - South East Forest - for some of the above content on local attractions.

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