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Pambula River - 'Pambula River' (Russ McGowan)

Pambula River rises in the timbered coastal hinterland hills near the locality of Lochiel and flows generally east into and from Pambula Lake before reaching its mouth into the Tasman Sea. It is a river that descends 83m over its 15km course. It is a river/lake system that is the largest wave dominated barrier estuary on the Twofold Shelf Bioregion. A system noted for its large areas of seagrass, mangrove and saltmarsh. The upper reaches of its estuarine section includes channels, sand and mud flats with brackish and freshwater assemblages amidst mangrove and saltmarsh. The Pambula area is dominated by the sandstones, mudstones and conglomerates of the Late Devonian (382.7 to 372.2 million years ago) Merimbula Group. These Merimbula Group sediments were deposited in shallow marine to terrestrial conditions and contain significant deposits of fish and plant fossils. The Pambula area is part of the Country of the Thaua People of the Yuin Nation. The name Pambula is derived from the Thaua ‘panboola’ meaning twin waters. The mounded shell middens located along the shorelines of the river, as a result of passed limited accessibility and subsequent inclusion into Ben Boyd National Park, are locally, nationally and internationally significant as estuarine rocky middens. Dated over 3000 years of age, some 30 sites have also been recorded around Pambula Lake with most over one metre in depth. Although the exact location of the Bass & Flinders Pambula River’s Barmouth is the subject of conjecture, it is generally accepted the Pambula River was, as the first recorded Europeans to do so, entered by them and their small crew in 1797 when seeking shelter from a gale. Bass subsequently noted of the beauty of the place (Barmouth) in his journal. This 19.8km paddle is also an opportunity to indulge in the natural beauty noted by Bass in 1797. A paddle that includes a diversion into the smaller Yowaka River. Overall, an idyllic venue for the coaching, learning and practice of basic estuary and sea skills in a relatively safe environment. In particular, in association with the Pambula Barmouth and its South Barmouth Beaches.