It’s arguably the best view in Nambucca and its finally getting a lookout to match it.
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The Rotary Lookout off Parkes St, Nambucca Heads, offers relatively unbridled views of the majesty of the Nambucca River mouth.
But until recently, the facilities built to enable interaction with the breathtaking natural mise-en-scene were little more than a sad cement slab bordering a three-vehicle carpark, with a perfunctory compass thrown in for good measure.
Enter from stage left the Nambucca Heads Rotary’s inimitable Clive Watson.
He, and his fellow Rotarians, launched a campaign to upgrade the space.
Rotary contributed a lot to the project, including making the tables and preparing recycled bridge timbers for use as bollards/seats.
- Council's Matthew Leibrandt
Construction (driven by local firm Beyond Expectations) and installation works have been ongoing for the past month, and the site is now ready for an artist’s touch.
Guy Crosley, who you may remember as the genius behind the Nambucca Police Station mosaics, will be bringing back his tesselated talents to embellish the plinth of the compass and along the change of heights of the newly-laid red concrete slab.
ETA on the finalised project is in just a couple of weeks so watch this space!
One local resident has pointed out that there is a missed opportunity here to construct a pedestrian footpath from the lookout to Shelly Beach.
“That’s a hard one because the embankment from the Rotary Lookout and Captain Cook Lookout is prone to slip so the only option is to run the pedestrian access along the road and it’s quite narrow in places,” Mr Leibrandt said.
“It is on our list of projects that we are trying to find an engineering solution to.
“We are upgrading the path along the V-Wall at the moment and have been upgrading the access link from the V-Wall to Shelly Beach over the past few years. The upgrades to both areas will continue next financial year.”
Council is also using the opportunity to improve the access between the Parkes St lookout and the V-Wall below.
So, while it is not the most direct route, there is pedestrian access to Shelly Beach from the Lookout, and it does make for a spectacular stroll.