Port Stephens and Surrounds
School Excursions
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Port Stephens and Surrounding areas are a great destination for school students to experience outdoor adventures. Port Stephens is located about two and half hours north of Sydney and is a blue water paradise.
Port Stephens lays claim to the title 'Dolphin Capital of Australia'. The bay is home to around 150 bottlenose dolphins, and there are several tour operators in Nelson Bay that offer dolphin-watch trips. These playful aquatic mammals often ride the bow wave just a couple of metres from the vessel.
Between May and June, humpback whales cruise past the town on their northern migration, returning south between September and November and these huge animals are often encountered on the dolphin cruises.
The Stockton Bight sand dunes need to be seen to be believed and Port Stephens 4WD Tours are the number one choice for all your dune adventures.
Rich in Aboriginal history, the earliest inhabitants of Port Stephens were the Aborigines of the Worimi Tribe whom Charles Grimes referred to as a taller, stouter race of people than those about Sydney with a completely different language.
At the time of white settlement there were about 400 Aborigines living around the esturary of Port Stephens. The tribe had only 50 members in 1873. By 1900 there were very few tribal Aborigines left. There are numerous Aboriginal relic sites in the area, the most obvious being the 'Canoes Trees' at Little Beach.
In the area stretching from Wallis lakes to Newcastle there are 37 recorded Ceremonial Sites (stone arrangements, bora grounds, carved trees and burial sites), and 115 recorded campsites.
Cedar cutters moved into the area early in the 1800's, followed by fishermen and farmers. Settlements developed on the south side of the bay and during World War II the area was used as a training base for American and Australian servicemen. Over the past three decades tourism has been the regional mainstay.
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