Forster Tuncurry New South Wales Australia (information, attractions, photos, links)

Forster Tuncurry
Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia

Welcome to the Forster Tuncurry information website

Forster (32°13′S 152°32′E) is a large coastal town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, in Great Lakes Council only a short drive west of Taree. It is a twin-city of Tuncurry. One of its most notable achievements has been to play host to the Australian Ironman Championships every April. For 1500 athletes, 3000 or more volunteers - mostly locals - give days and hours of their time to make the experience an amazing one. From 2006, the Championships have moved to Port Macquarie.

Forster and Tuncurry, located 312 km north of Sydney, are now essentially one conglomerate urban mass separated by a very large concrete bridge. They sit on opposite sides of the entrance to Wallis Lake which is 26 km long. Thus the two towns are fronted by the ocean to the east and the lake to the west. The combined population is currently 24,000. The endangered bird species, the little tern, breeds on two of the lake's many islets.

Forster-Tuncurry is a very typical holiday resort with all the strengths (lots of accommodation, plenty of places to eat takeaway food and local seafood, good fishing, surfing and swimming areas, a casual atmosphere) and weaknesses (it looks as though it was built three weeks ago, there are plenty of three-storey apartment blocks and little intimacy) that such resorts have.

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