Illawarra, NSW

Put These Dates In The Diary So You Don’t Miss Out The Illawarra is just built for festivals and events, right? So many stunning coastal and country locations that they can be held in gorgeous weather to keep them [mostly] going ahead and fab organisers willing to put them on for us – how lucky […]

The Illawarra is a huge region of fun towns, a buzzing city, stunning beaches, dramatic escarpments and landscape, rivers, mountains, rolling hills and paddocks, reservoirs, dams, bush and rainforest. Nearly 6000 square metres of super diverse landscape stretching from the coast in the west up to the escarpments of the Southern Highlands, reaching north to […]

We’re big believers in love around here at The Fold, and Valentine’s Day gives us the perfect excuse to lean right into the mushy, starry-eyed stuff. Think shared desserts, long lunches, clinking glasses and that “we should do this more often” feeling. If Cupid’s arrow has well and truly landed, Illawarra is full of ways […]

Local Ocean Pools For Laps Or A Lazy Float One of our favourite things to do is head to the beach, jump into an ocean pool or rock pool, start floating and stare up into the sky. Ocean pools mean less waves [although some can get super choppy!] and a more leisurely way of staying […]