Bream Beach, New South Wales
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Bream Beach is suburb in the Shoalhaven
Shoalhaven
The City of Shoalhaven is a Local Government Area in south-eastern New South Wales , Australia, two hours south of Sydney. It is more or less conterminous with an area referred to as The Shoalhaven. It is on the Pacific Ocean and the Princes Highway and is the terminus of the South Coast line...

 local government area, consisting of holiday resort located near the Jervis Bay Territory
Jervis Bay Territory
The Jervis Bay Territory is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. It was surrendered by the state of New South Wales to the Commonwealth Government in 1915 so that the Federal capital at Canberra would have "access to the sea"....

 in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Demographics

There are only 2 permanent inhabitants of Bream Beach, the owners of the park. Visitors are permitted to stay a maximum of 6 months per visit. The two small townships neighbouring Bream Beach (Erowal Bay and Wrights Beach) have only a few hundred residents each.

Geography

Bream Beach is located on St Georges Basin, almost exactly between Erowal Bay
Erowal Bay, New South Wales
Erowal Bay is a small village in the Shoalhaven local government area on the New South Wales south coast, on the northern side of St Georges Basin. It lies west of Hyams Beach and east of Old Erowal Bay. At the 2006 census, Erowal Bay had a population of 631 people.-References:...

 and Wright's Beach, the two closest townships.

Wildlife

Bream Beach is home to many different kinds of Australian native flora and fauna, including kangaroo
Kangaroo
A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, Red Kangaroo, Antilopine Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo. Kangaroos are endemic to the country...

s, kookaburras, rosella
Rosella
A rosella is one of five to eight species of colorful Australian parrots in the genus Platycercus. Platycercus means "broad-tailed" or "flat-tailed", reflecting a feature common to the rosellas and other members of the broad-tailed parrot tribe...

s, lorikeets, wombat
Wombat
Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately in length with a short, stubby tail. They are adaptable in their habitat tolerances, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania, as well as...

s and many more.

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