| Type: | suburb |
| Bobs Farm | |
| State: | nsw |
| Pop: | 662 |
| Density: | 17.75 |
| Density Footnotes: | [1] |
| Postcode: | 2316 |
| Coordinates: | -32.7764°N 151.9725°W |
| Elevation: | 7.2 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area: | 37.3 |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Timezone: | AEST |
| Utc: | +10 |
| Timezone-Dst: | AEDT |
| Utc-Dst: | +11 |
| Dist1: | 191 |
| Dir1: | NNE |
| Location1: | Sydney |
| Dist2: | 43.8 |
| Dir2: | NE |
| Location2: | Newcastle |
| Dist3: | 29 |
| Dir3: | E |
| Location3: | Raymond Terrace |
| Lga: | Port Stephens Council[4] |
| Region: | Hunter |
| County: | Gloucester |
| Parish: | Tomaree |
| Stategov: | Port Stephens |
| Fedgov: | Paterson |
| Maxtemp: | 27.3 |
| Mintemp: | 8.4 |
| Rainfall: | 1348.9 |
| Near-N: | Tilligerry Creek |
| Near-Ne: | Port Stephens |
| Near-E: | Anna Bay |
| Near-Se: | Tasman Sea |
| Near-S: | Tasman Sea |
| Near-Sw: | Salt Ash, Tasman Sea |
| Near-W: | Tilligerry Creek, Salt Ash |
| Near-Nw: | Tilligerry Creek |
| Local Map: | yes |
| Zoom: | 12 |
Bobs Farm is a sparsely populated rural suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.[4] It is on the main road between Newcastle and Nelson Bay and is home to a number of small, boutique style vineyards and wineries and a thriving aquaculture industry. Bobs Farm Public School on Marsh Road is a co-educational government primary school which was established in 1918.[5]
The Worimi people are the traditional owners of the Port Stephens area.[6] The area was named after a guy named Bob.
Contrary to the law, civilians who had been evacuated from the colony of Portuguese Timor to escape the Japanese invaders were interned in the former military camp at Bobs Farm during the Second World War. They had supported the Allies in the Battle of Timor. Even official Australian sources describe the living conditions in the camp as harsh.[7]
Bobs Farm is the first suburb of the Tomaree Peninsula when travelling towards Nelson Bay. It is bounded on the north almost entirely by Tilligerry Creek. A small part at the north-eastern end of the northern border meets Port Stephens. The southern border is occupied entirely by Stockton Beach.
Most of the suburb's population lies along the two main roads in the area, Marsh Road and Nelson Bay Road. Tin City, a collection of squatters shacks, is built on Stockton Beach near the border between Bobs Farm and Salt Ash.
Bobs Farm is the centre of a thriving, environmentally friendly, aquaculture industry that exports technology. In 2007 pioneering aquaculture technology, based around a recirculating system that is the only one in the world to provide consistent reproduction, was sold for the creation of six farms in the United States., discussions were in progress with companies in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. An education and tourism centre was constructed at the site of Tailor Made Fish Farms in 2007.[8] [9] In addition to it being environmentally friendly and providing consistent results, the technology developed at Bobs Farm is expected to reduce capitalisation costs.[10]