Australia Central Coast's Best Kept Secrets 2024

we are at Australia's Central Coast and we're going to show you the fun things you can do here we are at Norah Head Lighthouse constructed in 1903 this is an active lighthouse in New South [Music] Wales we're going up the lighthouse and brother's going to count all 96 [Music] steps so the lighthouse has two primary functions one is to tell ships where they're at and the others to warn them of danger such as that white thing over there if a ship goes to that white thing then a shipwreck is going to happen and there are a lot of shipwrecks between here and Sydney that white box over there is what tells the weather app what the weather's like this is a white light but there's a red window so the ships over there see a red light and that warns them of the reef over there so far we have cled 72 steps these steps are narrower and steeper than the ones before there's 90 six steps this is the 996 this is the first working Lighthouse we've been to we've been to many lighthouses that are like no longer used such as the ones in Maine this one's still going that is your lenss we are standing in the lantern so it's a hard concept to grass but this whole room we're in is called the lonn that's called a lens it weighs 5 tons it has 700 frenal or Fresno prisms in it if you look up through it you'll see two light buls only one is active oh yeah if that active light fails it will change its own light we're going outside oh wow here you arehe [Music] lighthous Sydney is 72 km that way we're 100 ft above the ground and 150 ft above the ocean I want to go down but I was going to give you a warning that can start at any time okay and if it does you'll jump out of your shoes okay is it going to be loud yes oh that's our backup generator from 1961 one and it's still hooked up and it still works this was the former Lighthouse Keeper quarter but now that the lighthouse is fully automated they don't need a Lighthouse Keeper so guests can rent this place and stay here to take all the way back to America to prove that you have been the top of my lighthouse thank you and that is the Norah Head Lighthouse it was really cool to go up there and you can get a great view of and sometimes you can even see Sydney from up there our tour guide was very nice and informative and the weather up at the top with the wind is really nice and beautiful now we are at the Central Coast Marine Discovery Center this place teaches The Wonder of the oceans through displays and interactive activities these are some of the fish you'd see in Australia if you went snorkeling can I touch the fish click on the dots to view the Panorama oh okay so this shows live cams of the ocean let me go out oh this might be a shipwreck site [Music] this lets me examine things at a microscopic [Music] Bubble look at that se that looks so cool okay zoom in ready ja zoom in zo zoom in hello yeah I'm doing a scavenger [Music] hun you might want to choose a tiny bit of [Music] squeen thank you you're welcome chocolate chocolate yes thank you and that's the Central Coast Marine Discovery Center the scavenger Hut makes you grow around the museum so you can read everything while also getting priz which is this I like how we were able to watch them feed different marine animals that are local to this area now we are at the Henry Kendall Cottage this is the home to the 19th century poet showcasing period Furnishings artifacts and memorability this bed is the only original piece in this house and it was owned by Henry Kendall the poet and we know that it's original because over here he ET his initials there see if if you're a vanal in the past then it's then it's like a cool piece of history but if you're a now that's not good oh dang that's a huge vandalism right there [Music] HK they're not sure what this extension of the house was used for but it's set up as a bedroom in the [Music] 1920s here they have a kitchen setup but back then the kitchen wasn't attached to the actual house because it could have burned down and in this empty Green Space over here they think there might have once been a kitchen building here but if so it burned down this is the dunny which is what we call an ouse in America and there's two different toilets so two people can go at once the Central Coast of Australia used to be known for citrus and this is a citrus sorder so as the orange moves down it can get sorted into different sizes this is a Bellow which is used to feed the Flames of the fire and it's so huge I thought that was a piano these are some convict items cuz everyone here used to be a [Music] prisoner and that is the Henry Kendall Cottage I really like learning about the history of how things changed and also the house back in the days this is the first historical home we've been to in Australia so it's interesting seeing how they liveed back then and learning about the industry that used to be in this area we're at aquafun on AA Beach and we're going to do some stand up paddle boarding this is H to Australia's largest selection of modern human powered pedal boats kayaks and standup paddle [Music] boards [Music] I wish brother came here he unfortunately passed out on the H toe bed because uh of jet lag [Music] oh that's a white f a [Music] white and that is aquafun on aoca Lake overall this is very fun you can write kayak stand up paddle boards Mega standup paddle board paddle boats all of that fun stuff on water down this C you can see uh different fish I saw a white fish a brown fish and then you there's also different noises of Nature and then there's two different paths you can go down I don't know if they Loop if we had more time we would definitely go down there overall this place is a very fun and relaxing