https://www.currarong.org.au/events daily 0.75 2025-05-28 https://www.currarong.org.au/events/event-one-aszab-llnw7-4tyj6-xpy56 monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/c36ee6a9-487d-493d-8c05-5bae319f6ec9/unsplash-image-gdTxVSAE5sk.jpg Events - New Years Eve Fireworks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.currarong.org.au/events/event-one-aszab-llnw7-4tyj6 monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/46f1eecd-cf30-4dd0-8459-e8ef14f80956/2024.01.01-book-sale.jpg Events - New Years Day Book Sale - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.currarong.org.au/events/event-one-aszab-llnw7 monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/54b62c42-6e73-498d-917a-4b5752b55009/Bingo-Summer-2023-24.jpg Events - Bingo Night! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.currarong.org.au/events/event-one-aszab monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/28728eb6-3e69-4855-9b4a-9db7bbc3f7e3/2023-Christmas-party-poster.jpg Events - CCA Christmas Party 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.currarong.org.au/home daily 1.0 2026-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/2c8d2ddd-4843-40e4-8347-2f463b4b88af/Gerringong-St-roos.jpg Home - Currarong Community Association (CCA), founded in 1947, invites you to enjoy our stunning natural setting: the ocean, beaches, native bush, and animal and bird life. You can fish, surf, dive, bushwalk or simply relax in the sun. There are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) and European heritage sites and shipwrecks reflecting the lengthy history of the area. Or feeling sporty? Enjoy the public tennis and basketball courts, skate park or play bowls at the club. There’s something for everyone, with sheltered beaches great for kids and families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/5944ee70-59e6-4dc0-9dae-c06df3900043/13.Beecroft-Peninsular-June-2020-copy.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/474b8274-b30c-44ea-958c-fada3081e49e/home-progress-hall-copped.jpg Home - Hall Hire The Currarong Progress Hall is available for hire for functions including Weddings and receptions, birthday parties and other festivities. More › Hire Enquiry › https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/a89cccc4-9512-46de-ad96-be2ac99a29c0/beecroft-headland.jpg Home - Become a Member Find out how to join the association, and about our constitution. More › Join › https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/0e558220-c025-42fc-9b9d-09711b188575/Merimbula-Wreck.jpg Home - CCA Meetings The Association holds about 6 meetings including the AGM during the year, where you can ask questions and hear updates about progress on issues including roads and other services, goings on at the nearby base, and various events, campaigns and projects. More › https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/1766026260202-PMFDCD8AK336CJTFFLNF/unsplash-image-gdTxVSAE5sk.jpg Home - Upcoming Events View our large range of upcoming events in the Currarong Community. https://www.currarong.org.au/about/hall-hire daily 0.75 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/7c421836-e849-4271-9321-f774d8bca95d/Hall-wedding.jpg Hall Hire - Currarong Progress Hall is on the corner of Walton Way and Merimbula Street. Built by local efforts in 1953, the hall is popular for events like weddings and receptions, birthday parties, and other private and public functions . Ceiling fans, air conditioning and lights ensure a comfortable atmosphere at any time of the day or year. It also has a PA system, and a data projector and screen. It has a large area for tables and chairs (150 are supplied) and of course clean modern male, female and disabled toilet facilities. It is also equipped with a modern kitchen featuring large gas stove and oven, microwave, fridge and water heater etc. (see photos) NB: we do not supply cooking or eating utensils. All events must be finished by 11 pm. https://www.currarong.org.au/hall-hire-application-form daily 0.75 2025-11-25 https://www.currarong.org.au/terms-conditions daily 0.75 2026-01-23 https://www.currarong.org.au/all-events daily 0.75 2025-12-19 https://www.currarong.org.au/submit-event-form daily 0.75 2025-12-16 https://www.currarong.org.au/membership daily 0.75 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/dc3e2f39-ab87-4c29-b324-988e8de1c0c0/CCA_%2815_of_45%29.jpg Membership - About Membership The Currarong Community Association depends on volunteers to undertake its activities and work for the community, in particular on those who become members. Our purpose, as set out in our Constitution, is to act in the interests of our members and the wider Currarong community by: liaising with the Shoalhaven City Council, NSW government, Australian government and other relevant business and community bodies to secure support, funding and public works; providing, receiving and distributing relevant information and encouraging feedback on issues concerning Currarong and the surrounding and wider area; promoting community events and activities; and using its assets in accordance with these objects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/ea412adf-92e4-4c9a-819e-13f5d5a642e4/CCA_%2831_of_45%29.jpg Membership - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.currarong.org.au/meetings daily 0.75 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/1764116732674-Q6BNASI0R4417JSMAD8E/unsplash-image-Hb6uWq0i4MI.jpg Meetings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.currarong.org.au/committee daily 0.75 2026-01-13 https://www.currarong.org.au/history daily 0.75 2026-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/0fac7697-f862-4677-aaa6-326a390ad8b6/beecroft-headland.jpg History - Beecroft Headland, Bundarwa Rock shelves, caves, and middens tell us that the Beecroft Peninsula and Currarong have been inhabited by aboriginal communities from 4,000 and perhaps up to 7,000 years ago. The area is very important to the local Jerrinja and Wreck Bay Aboriginal communities. In the late 1830s Alexander Kinghorne and his sons tried to establish grazing and farming on his estate called Mount Jervis. The estate spread from Cabbage Tree on Jervis Bay to Kinghorne Point on the Pacific Ocean. Sailors and fishermen often sheltered in the safe haven of Abraham’s Bosom. The first land grant at Currarong was 34 acres in 1858 to Helen Jane Mackay, daughter of the first Crown Lands commissioner in Nowra. It covered approximately the area between Walton Way, Piscator Avenue, Fishery Road and Merimbula Street. This was bought by Henry F Halloran in 1928 and became the Halloran Subdivision in 1930. From the 1880s part of Beecroft Peninsula has been used by the Royal Australian Navy for bombing and offshore to onshore target practice. In 1955 shells from the Black Prince, a New Zealand ship doing exercises with the RAN, came a little too close, landing in the village and off Currarong Creek. The area is now known as the Beecroft Weapons Range. In 1898 because of the many shipwrecks and the wrongly placed Cape St Georges Lighthouse further South, Point Perpendicular Lighthouse was built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/7e7594d2-f56e-45c8-825f-6096603c9275/1939-not-a-bad-days-fishing-topaz-standard+v2-1200h.jpg History - Fishing & Camping The first person thought to have settled in Currarong was Alex Carvis in the 1890s. Initially a gum getter collecting gum from grass trees, he built a hut and took campers fishing in small boats and from the cliffs. He also planted the Moreton Bay Fig growing near the rotunda. A little later the Hammer brothers built a shack and started commercial fishing from Currarong taking their catches up the Shoalhaven River to Bomaderry railway station and on to Sydney. Currarong slowly became known as a magnificent fishing and camping spot for people from Sydney, Wollongong and the Shoalhaven area. They came in boats from Greenwell Point or overland by horse and cart on dirt roads and along the beach. They stayed in makeshift tents and huts. They roamed the headland enjoying places like Drum and Drumsticks and Cabbage Tree. They left with huge catches of fish and amazing stories about Currarong and Abraham’s Bosom Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/9ddb1d8b-272c-47e0-bbd4-9e18a2ad46f6/SS-Merimbula-Wreck-1928-topaz-standard+v2-3000w.jpg History - Shipwrecks In 1882 the steamship Plutus ran aground on Warrain Beach. The wreck is underwater about 300 metres west of Plutus Reef. Coal from the ship can still be found on the beach. In 1928 the wreck of the Merimbula on Whale Point created a long-term tourist attraction and brought more visitors to Currarong as well as lots of salvaged building materials and tinned food supplies. Bill Lennox was appointed caretaker of the wreck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/1ea23e2d-5df8-4a48-a43b-033311a493d6/Alex-Carbis-Shack-1921-topaz-standard+v2-1200h.jpg History - Currarong Village In the 1920s and 1930s more fishermen and families moved to Currarong, buying into the Halloran subdivision or obtained Crown Land permissive occupancy leases. Many boats were moored in the creek and opposite the current boat ramp. The Moore family started to build holiday cabins, and later the original part of what became Zac’s Café and General Store. They also looked after the camping ground on Dolphin Reserve. The Lamonds, the first family with children, settled in 1931 and provided milk and vegetables to visitors and a mail delivery service from Nowra. The Peel family opened Currarong’s first store and post office on Warrain Crescent. The Bromleys had a store, petrol pump and holiday cabins in Walton Way and later provided a bus service to Bomaderry station. The Colquhouns, Coultharts, Chamberlains, Campbells, Elliotts, Mackens, Blaxells, McEwans and Webers were just a few of the families who built stores, weekenders or permanent homes in the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s. Many of the houses in Currarong are still owned by relatives of these families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/683665784186cf55bd08747e/b7eb0db6-1fa8-433a-87e7-4feead047793/Early-30s-Currarong-Creek-crossing-topaz-standard+v2-1200h.jpg History - Improvements In 1945 Abraham’s Bosom Reserve was established. Between 1947 and 1953 the Progress Association was established and the Progress Hall built. About this time the Camping Grounds moved from Dolphin Reserve to its present location on Nowra Road. From 1965 to 1968 Currarong Bowling and Recreational Club was planned and built. Currarong’s reputation as a magnificent fishing, camping and holiday destination continued to grow. The village acquired more services- electricity, picture theatre, tennis courts, septic tanks, sealed roads, town water, more shops and finally sewerage. The Fire Shed on Walton Way was replaced by the Fire Station on Fishery Road and became the Arts and Crafts Workshop. The Club was extended and the Progress Hall refurbished. The road through the Caravan Park was diverted. Beach Mission was held during the Christmas holidays. https://www.currarong.org.au/contacts daily 0.75 2026-02-19