Koala Hospital Port Macquarie

Early to bed, early to rise..that was me on Sunday morning! The sun was shining through the window and the world was beckoning.

There ia a lovely coastal walk down from the port so I spoke to Chris in the hostal about it and he said ride it, it's about 7k but amazing and pretty flat all the way! Awesome I thought so I grabbed a bike and …

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 …

Port Macquarie was a lovely little town to relax it. It had a lovely waterfront, where many people go to bring their fish and chips and just take it all in. The title 'Batman' refers to all the bats that are in the Nature Park, near the hostel. See for yourself in the photos …

This morning had to leave Sydney super early, got up about half five and said my goodbyes to Johana and David and then make the rather long walk up to the train station with way too many bag and heavy bags! so not fun and i forgot just how heavy my backpack could be. Got off the train at central station and walked down to the greyhound bus stop, …

Die Kookaburras wecken uns schon früh mit ihrem lachenden Ruf. Noch vor dem Morgenessen machen wir einen kleinen Spaziergang im Booti Booti Nationalpark gleich nebenan. Die Flughunde sind von der Futtersuche zurückgekehrt und sonnen sich in den Baumkronen.
Es geht weiter nach Port Macquarie via Umweg über den Tourist Drive (Ocean Drive) dem …

28 september 2012
Weer 140 kilometer noordelijker bevonden we ons in de derde oudste stad van Australië: Port Macquarie. In deze middelgrote stad bevindt zich het enige echte 'Koala Hospital'. Dit opvangcentrum voor gewonde en zieke koala's is uniek in zijn soort! Dankzij onze 'Lonely Planet' reisgids wisten we dat er om 15 uur een rondleiding …

Def skipped a whole 10 days... Will get back to that! My sister... Aka my temporary "all put together" partner in crime (and those who know my sister, knows she NEVER plans out a thing)...has our week-long road trip up the eastern coast of oz planned out to the exact wake up time, eat (drink), and sleep. oh joy... So much for going with the flow! …

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 …

On our drive up the coast towards Coffs Harbour we decided to call into Port Macquarie for a look around. We were looking for somewhere to park the car and van when a local came up to us asking if we were lost. He had noticed that we were driving slowly through town and thought that we may have been lost, bless him! He did tell CB that the koala …

... 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 ...