Koala Hospital Port Macquarie

Another beautiful day without a cloud in the sky. Today we split up, Bobby went off to Emerald Downs Golf Course to play a round of golf and Katie and I decided to explore the rest of what Port Macquarie has to offer.

Our first stop was the Kooloonbung Creek Nature Park, home to numerous birds (and bats as we later found out) and 50 …

In Port Maquarie right now, and just about to go walk the coastline to the Koala Hospital where they rehabilitate sick and injured Koalas!
Update:
The Koala Hospital was quite possibly the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life. About 15 sick or injured Koalas including joeys (babies) were recuperating there. Some koalas they rescued in …

... we were safely on board, thankfully without any crazed lunatics this time, the journey flew by. Our destination this time was Port Macquarie, a small, sleepy town about 3 hours north of Newcastle. We were picked up by the hostel shuttle and taken to ...

... , with devoted volunteers looking after their every need. It felt strange, having recently been in such poor countries, to hear that the koala hospital needs $200,000 Australian dollars a year to carry on it's good work - an amount that in Cambodia would ...

Alex: Our next stop up the coast was at Port Macquarie about 6 hours from Sydney. The main attraction for us was the Koala hospital for obvious reasons. We got in, checked in and then took a walk along the front. The beach is pretty and was full of ...

... to Annalise, Matt, Michael and Paul and ended up going out for a few beers with them (we saw them further up the coast at Byron Bay too and went to see a band with them). We only had a brief visit to Port Macquarie but really enjoyed our time ...

... 21 - After all too little time in Newcastle it was time to move on again. After about 4 hours on the coach we arrived at Port Macquarie where we were picked up by the YHA hostel. This hostel is family run and is basically a normal house that has been ...

... ! I've now spent the day and one night in Port Macq, and I'm moving on to Coffs Harbour tomorrow.  I've been to the Koala Hospital today, and watched the koalas being fed, they were sooo cute!   Other than that, there's not a lot to do ...

Stopped off in lovely Port Macquarie and visited the Koala hospital. ...

... and eat very well, thanks to Candace’s culinary skills.  One highlight for all of us was a visit to a Koala Hospital, staffed almost exclusively by volunteers.  They rescue and rehabilitate koalas which have been injured by cars or dogs ...

... lolly from Mrs Mac's!). After reaching four of the seven beaches here we cut back into the town and found our way to the Koala Hospital where the sick and injured in the local area and rehabilitates them back into the wild. I loved seeing the Koalas but ...

After a longish journey on the Greyhound bus, we finally arrived at Port Macquarie. We could see out of the window that this was going to be an extremely different kind of place to the big cities we had experienced. After bundling into the Ozzie Pozzie ...