ULLADULLA, NEW SOUTH WALES

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'Ulladulla' () is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia in Shoalhaven City. It is on the Princes Highway, about half way between the larger towns of Batemans Bay to the south and Nowra to the north, a little over three hours' drive south of Sydney. The Ulladulla area is a seven-kilometre stretch of continuous urban residential development from the southern edge of Ulladulla, through the town of Mollymook, to Narrawallee in the north, terminating at the Narrawallee estuary.
The underdeveloped beaches along this stretch are mainly populated by Sydneysiders and Canberrans during holiday periods, although Canberrans largely holiday further south, to Kioloa and Batemans Bay. The area is largely unknown to Victorian holiday makers, who usually frequent more southerly destinations such as Eden and Merimbula.
The name "Ulladulla" comes from the aboriginal word ''Nulladulla'', which apparently means "safe harbour".
The town gained its first traffic light in the 1990s; one of its most notable landmarks is the Marlin Hotel with its big fluorescent marlin on the roof, which can be viewed from the sea.
Ulladulla is surrounded by the adjoining towns of Milton and Burrill Lake as well as Mollymook and Narrawallee. The extended area from Burrill Lake to Milton is referred to as the Milton–Ulladulla area. There are two high schools and three primary schools in the district.
Satirists John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver used a fictionalised version of Ulladulla as the setting for the popular radio comedy monologue "This is the South Coast News". Performed by journalist Paul Murphy, it was a regular segment for several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the weekly radio comedy ''This Sporting Life'' and the scripts were later published in book form by the ABC

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Ulladulla Harbour

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Ulladulla Harbour

Ulladulla Harbour is a minor port administered by New South Wales Department of Lands. Minor Ports Program
A wooden jetty was built in 1859 so as to retain the services of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company; the company had informed the farmers that would not call again at Ulladulla unless better mooring facilities were provided. After seven years the jetty was replaced by a stone pier built by the government on the natural reef. The company built a store on the harbour foreshores for the receiving of produce for shipment to and from Sydney.^[1] There was a weekly cargo service to Ulladulla until the mid 1950s.
The harbour is the home port of the largest commercial fishing fleet on the South Coast of New South Wales. As a result of the influence of Italian fishing families in the area, each Easter a "Blessing of the Fleet" ceremony occurs, although in 2004 and 2005 the accompanying celebration was cancelled due to a sharp rise in the public liability premium. The long-term future of the event is in doubt^[2][3].

Public Transport

There is no railway line along the South Coast after Bomaderry station, which is on the northern side of the Shoalhaven River across from Nowra. There are two daily bus services which stop at Ulladulla and Milton, one heading towards Sydney and the other towards Melbourne, both travel along the Princes Highway.

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External links

★ Ulladulla Wiki

★ Ulladulla.info