Here we all are again wondering this holiday break how the kids can top the fun they had last year in Milton Ulladulla.
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More than easy, with the main Easter weekend feature as always being the annual Blessing of the Fleet festival.
Green Street will close for the day to enable activities, performances, games and rides.
The Kids Zone will be abuzz with the jumping castle, merry go round and other rides, Milo the Clown will rove the festival precincts, probably bumping into Shoalhaven Water mascots Tapster and Dripette, Circus 35 Degrees South’s performances will include flame throwing.
Along with the Big 4 Bungalow Park Apex Beach Games, activities for the kids include the thong toss, egg and spoon race, sack race and spaghetti eating competition.
The harbour foreshore will echo the rat-a-tat of the Ulladulla Public School drumming band between 5.45pm and 6.00pm.
At 6.30pm the fireworks spectacular will top it all off.
After the weekend, there’s plenty to keep the kids entertained through the rest of the Easter school holidays.
In almost any green space they can have a low cost encounter with nature’s screaming jets - flocks of vibrantly coloured lorikeets.
Pumpkin seeds for a few bucks a kilo drive them crazy.
They’ll land on your hand, arm, head, back, knee... but give them mixed seeds and grains - processed breads (white particularly), pastries and biscuits can cause a variety of illnesses.
What is the coast if not the perpetual main attraction for surfboarders, body boarders, the boom domain of paddle boarders, fishers, leisurely strollers, sunbakers, bodysurfers, shell seekers, readers and umbrella snoozers?
It’s the cement that bonds groups of kids who can start to form lifetime friendships, who had so much fun together last holidays and can’t wait to see each other again.
For calmer waters they can swim in the constructed ocean pools, local baths or lakes.
Ulladulla Leisure Centre, with a 25 metre indoor heated pool, toddlers paddling pool and 20 metre hydrotherapy pool opens seven days.
Off the sand, many easy walking tracks are a great way to get kids out of their device driven virtual worlds for a while and into the real one to enjoy nature.
Ulladulla’s One Track For All is a great walk for all ages, including those who need a walking surface that is pram friendly.
Start from Rotary Park, also known as Pirate Park and follow the path out to the headland.
The Coomee Nulunga Cultural Trail in Deering Street, Ulladulla opposite Lighthouse Oval
features painted dream posts and carvings.
Nearby Warden Head lighthouse at the end of Deering St, originally built on the Ulladulla Breakwater in 1873, it is one of only two towers in NSW made from wrought iron plates.
For indoor fun there’s the iconic Funland where kids can enjoy three floors of arcade games including the bungy jump (actually a harnessed bouncing session on a huge trampoline).
Ulladulla’s Dunn Lewis Centre offers ten pin bowling or see a movie at the Arcadia Twin Cinemas.