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Snapshot(s) Saturday: Ti Tree Lake


While our fellow sun worshippers contentedly basked on Tallow Beach and body surfed the erratic waves, we searched for a lesser known work of Mother Nature. A mere fifteen-minute stroll from our cabin in Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park, brought us to Ti Tree Lake.


Tea Tree Lake, as some would spell it, is no ordinary lake. The lake and its surrounding area is a sacred site to the Bundjalung women, and was used as a birthing place. It was off limits to the men.


From its marker on the edge of Hayter Street in Suffolk Park, there’s no trail through the bush to the lake (we looked for one, but to no avail). But if you access Tallow Beach via McGregor Street like we do, walk fifteen minutes southward along the shore. This gorgeous, amber-hued body of water is visible from the beach.


The lake’s edge is shallow and is safe for toddlers. And I must say, Luna got a little too ecstatic here.

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Gay Mitra
When not backpacking, she teaches her daughter sight words and belly dancing (even if she's not good at it). She's currently eating her way around some hippie town in Australia. She loves talking about herself in the third person.

49 thoughts on “Snapshot(s) Saturday: Ti Tree Lake

  1. Im a woman-at-heart person i guess, they would allow me to enter the no ordinary, orange-y lake, lol! si luna, naka orange din, cuteness!

  2. A lake traditionally used for birthing? Now I see Luna’s instant connection to the water as if she just got out from a nine-month ‘hibernation’ from your womb. She’s getting cuter all the more!

  3. Oh I love this, a lake for women lang haha.

    On a side note, I’m glad I found your blog – just now actually. I feel so relieved that I’m not the only traveling mama haha. ^.^

  4. Aleah, Sherv was in the water too. There were no signs to say that men aren’t allowed. Perhaps, it used to be off limits to men. The water isn’t muddy at all, maybe some parts of it but we didn’t see the whole expanse of the lake.

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