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Port Macquarie Slideshow
Top Hotels in Port Macquarie
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Rydges Port Macquarie
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Mercure Centro Port Macquarie
204 reviews
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Waters Edge Boutique Hotel Port Macquarie
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Northpoint Apartments Port Macquarie
22 reviews
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Vacation Village Port Macquarie
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Stoney Park Port Macquarie
4 reviews
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Wyndham Vacation Resort Flynns Beach Port Macquarie
14 reviews
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Port Macquarie Ki-Ea Apartments
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Comfort Inn Aquatic Port Macquarie
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Port Macquarie
Travel Blogs from Port Macquarie, Australia
Out of the Rush Life
This is a top pick! ... and horses grazing in a field that seemed suspended above the sea, one cow placidly allowing a bird to perch on its head. In Port Macquarie I stumbled off and realized I'd forgotten to print out the map for the volunteer house in town. Uh-oh . . . one ...
The Key
This is a top pick! ... own. Not as a quest for independence, but as an expression of it. I don't really know what I was expecting from Australia; there were high expectations because it's a tried and tested backpacker route, trodden by millions of feet just like mine in ...
My Kingdom for a Ham
This is a top pick! All week John has been talking about it: meat raffles. He's jealous of Mick's girlfriend's Mom, who won two hams at a meat raffle in Coffs Harbour. It's up to us to manage better, and what better time than a Wednesday afternoon, what better place than ...
Australia - Port Macquarie
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Pretty Port
This is a top pick! ... amusing Greyhound journey spent listening to our driver curse every other road user, we're dropped off in the centre of Port Macquarie, and advised to bide our time as our hostel would be sending a bus for us. Excellent! 5 minutes later and ...
Pacific Highway
This is a top pick! ... of the trip but the weather was really conspiring against us. After saying farewell to Seal Rocks we quickly found ourselves in Port Macquarie. Our first impressions were "Boring" I think due mainly to the frustration with the weather. We almost just move ...
Port Macquarie
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Spot of Port Sir?
This is a top pick! ... ing'! I hope the landlord isn't 'bitter'. He needs to keep his 'spirits' up. We checked into Melaleuca Caravan Park in Port Macquarie and then headed down to Town Beach. We had lunch overlooking the beach and watching the surfer dudes do their stuff. ...
Cute and cuddly Koalas
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Time to move on from sydney and start our ...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The heat is on
This is a top pick! ... nor money, but that's a different story. So, onward we headed out of single mother city and on to our final destination for the day, Port Macquarie. We grabbed a bite to eat, a big bag of ice, and a load of Tooheys Pilsner, and went back to the van, ...
Day's 42-44 - Katoomba to Port Macquarie
... We have already picked a campsite from our book and so we do have a destination to aim for. It took us six hours to get to Port Macquarie with a half an hour stop for a pot of tea and something to eat. We got a bit lost trying to find the campsite, I'm ...
G'day Koaula's
... our final destination for today at Coff's Harbour. After a couple hours drive we stopped off at the Billabong Koaula Park in Port Macquarie. We saw some really cute (but rather stinky) Koaula's and one had twin babies - arrrrhh. We got ...
Port Macquarie and Per and Pai.
... hos en soed familie, for hvem vi var helt fremmede, og hyggede hele aftenen, natten og spillede musik og sang. Port Macquarie har fantastiske badestrande hvor der ogsaa surfes en del. Byen har baade surfere og bodyboardere paa verdensranglistens top 5. ...
Start of my travels...
... a really nice hostel and I met loads of nice people, then moved back to the city for one night before catching my 7am bus to Port Macquarie! 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 ...
Turen til Port Macquarie
... , måtte hives ud af sengen. Vi smurte nogle brødklappere og fik kopperne fyldt op med icekaffe, inden vi kørte mod kystbyen Port Macquarie, 200 km længere sydpå. Da vi nåede byen Coffs Habour, kørte vi mod endnu et informationscenter og håbede ...
Picture me rollin........
Have you ever seen that show pimp my ride? Well let me tell you that our rides/homes far outdo anything you've seen on that show. First off we have scrappy J.P. and Mike D's purple station wagon.(yes J.P. likes to stick with purple vehicles) A powerful ...
Port Macquarie
... have amassed throughout the past few months. It's good to finally get reading them and get them out of my backpack! I stayed at the Port Macquarie YHA, which was a nice little place, but I was the only girl in a 6-bed dorm, which was a little weird and ...
Jul 31, 2010
Sydney and Port Macquarie with Candace and Marv
... was hard not to fall in love with the baby koalas in particular. Another highlight was a meal at Finnian’s Irish Tavern in Port Macquarie. Having done so well at the RSL we decided to give it a try on ‘2-for-1 night’, figuring how ...
Pelicans at Port Macquarie
Arrived in Port Macquarie (still not sure how to say it!) on Wednesday afternoon and checked into 'Ozzie Pozzie' hostel. The hostel is independently run so different to the others we've stayed in but the people are very friendly and the place is clean and ...
cresent head
Now at Cresent head another beautiful place! the weather in Australia is so lovely clear blue skys blue tirquise sea & pure white sand.Its just spring at the moment & the temperature is about 25 deg lovely! fresh at night so wooly pink! jim jams ...
Days 42-44 Continued
The next day we spent exploring Port Macquarie. We had a walk along the beach and through the town. It is a nice place, there are a lot of holiday makers here. We didn't see any beach shops though so it will be another night on the hard floor. Also, I ...
Koala Central
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 ...
Port Macquarie
... ....helps break up the bus journey!! Port was meant to be the more cosmopolitan town, had some nice tree lined streets and a small port full of fisherman but not a huge amount more to offer (think we are all getting to excited for Syndey) Decided for ...
How to do the East Coast of Aus in super fast time
... us out and going bowling where I lost spectacularly – I even used the ramp at one point, definitely not a strong point. Port MacQuarie – Bright sunshine one day, torrential rain the next I had the most amazing 2 days here – I met ...
Port Macquarie
I arrived in Port Macquarie this afternoon, after spending a few days in Newcastle. I am in the process of uploading some photos and updating my entries. So I promise I will finish updating everything properly in the next couple of ...