NSW Central & South coast

Ho Ho ho.
ALL of the coastal campsites south of Sydney down to Merimbula /Eden will be chocablock even before Christmas. As the locals explained to me they set up camp in the National parks a week before christmas to grab the spot, even though they do not go until boxing day or later.
Most of the National Parks have a ballot system for holidays where it is not a free for all.eg Green Patch at Jervis Bay.
I got the last spot at Tathra a couple of years ago, but it is pot luck, and that was a caravan park which was about the 6th place I tried.

You may have better luck going inland to say Bendethra or Moreton National Park.
Regard sPhilip A

Good luck with finding somewhere on the coast between Syd and border. I live in Nowra and when we've gone camping around this time of yr we always booked 12 months ahead of ourselves to make sure we could get in. Everywhere will be packed - every caravan park everywhere, they are already coming down in massive numbers!

But for places to stay etc. I would be trying somewhere just south of Ulladulla, fishermans paradise is on the river and you could quietly set ya swag up down there, maybe like Burrill Pines, dont bother with anything around termeil - merry beach, racecourse and pretty beaches - they will be packed, although your best bet with those will be pretty beach as its less commercialised. Batemans bay will be chockas so maybe something around mogo which is a little further south - there is a road that heads east from mogo to somewhere (You have to go past the mogo zoo), cannt remember the name, which is on the beach but not sure if there is a caravan park etc,

as for anything else down south of the border I cannt really help, but Im sure there are a few nice places which someone will know about.....

good luck

deua national park loads of space.

Shallow crossing, on the Clyde river is nice. To get there turn right just after the East Lynne roadhouse/pie shop, south of Ulladulla. It's not too far in from the highway.

If it's crowded, you can continue along the dirt road and there are a number of bush campsites at various spots on the river. This road comes out at Nelligan, near Batemans Bay.

Graeme