Designed & built by custodian Peter Paine, the Billaroy property is a labour of love & creativity.
With direct access to the beach through the Goolawah camp ground, you won’t need to go far to feel the sand between your toes, and salt water upon your skin. The rocky outcrop of Delicate Nobby creates rock pools, some deep enough to be adult size, so exploring awaits all who visit. We are also a dog friendly residence, as is the beach, so its a perfect locations to spoil your furry friend.
The story of Billaroy
Billaroy began with a ten year search for the perfect location on the NSW coast. A friend mentioned Crescent Head, and I recalled looking at a property in 1984 at Big Hill in the Point Plomer region. We immediately returned to camp and surveyed the coast between Crescent Head and Point Plomer, in particular the Racecourse Head, Delicate Nobby and Big Hill areas, eventually narrowing it down to Delicate Nobby.
After identifying the title owners of the land that stretches the total length of the beach we began a lengthy two year conversation and finally arrangement to purchase the land in 2002. My wildest dreams had come true. The location had everything I had been searching for - beautiful headlands and deserted beaches that were backed by rainforests, home to hundreds of species of native plants and animals.
We erected a surfcamp in a small clearing about 150m back with northerly views to the beach and Racecourse headland. Then started a 10 year study of the land, removing all the Bitou and Lantana that had worked its way through the land. The native bush responded immediately, also allowing for some native Cooch grass in areas previously totally covered with Bitu and Lantana. By now we had started to develop an understanding of the land we were inhabiting.
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.”
— Australian Aboriginal Proverb