All Seasons Country Lodge Taree

... with pure powder white sand a huge stretch of beach & a hand full of people. i was sun bathing & reading the Lion Whitch & the Wardrobe lol!! kids book (that martin found for $.0 in a second hand book shop in manly, priceless!) i didnt read it as a kid!! (prob coz i couldnt read!!)
as i looked up i saw a surf dude very quickly rush out of the sea! then i saw some fins!
dolphines! they came soooooo close, a school of dolphins ...

... must be hundreds of wineries along the roads here and they all have signs inviting you for free wine tasting, these are obviously very dangerous roads! We had no choice but to go for some wine tasting and shopping. We managed to visit 3 wineries before we decided it would be wise to leave the area (we tasted several different wines per winery :-)), after all we still had a long way to drive, and we already have bought a few bottles of very nice wine. After a long day drin ...

We got an early start and headed to Williamtown at the other end of Stockton sand dunes. We'd decided to walk to a wreck, the Sygna, that sits just off the shore. We were advised against it by the guys at the Tourist Info - they said you could only get there by 4x4 and the walk would take us all day but we were up for the challenge! We drove as far as Bumblebee could take us, parked up, packed some lunch and headed down the 4x4 track. Good thing we didn't attempt to ...

... meandering around same as we were with her favourite person - her dog. Some women are just so adventerous and interesting and I loved chatting to her each day. She was reasonably new at this lifestyle as well so we had a lot of comparisons to do. Our best find we both decided were our "crocs" the newest, latest, most revolting plastic footwear - but just the thing ...

... spring), Mark reminded me of the vital hand signals used to communicate underwater, before donning the remainder of my gear and slithering over the side of the boat into the cool water. Forgetting the hand signals the moment fin touched water, I responded to Mark's sign for OK? with enough hand gestures to land a light aircraft and responded eagerly to the question 'ready to dive' with 'I am out of air' Oh dear. Once underwater it all came (flooding) back, and I was soon ...

Got lost today trying to find the beach. Not good. Booked some trips. Couldnt work out what all the hype was about. Bit miffed. That night we headed out with the girls from Asia for a couple of drinks and to see what was meant to be a spectacular fire show...but it never happened as the guy had bruised with collar bone or something. Day 2 in Byron wasn't the greatest day away...

... nsw). We managed to find a domino's up the road and get a large pizza for 6.95$ which is just under 3 quid! I like aussie land for it cheap pizza's! and we watched the remainder of the cricket that night as it rained and we got to see fork lightening over sydney from our motel balcony! The next day we got up and went into the city after checking out more insurance companies online. We met up with my uncle again and he took us to the Paddy's Markets ...

... as the home of the bbq is actually home of the gas bbq - which cost a fortune, so made our own invention of cake cooling trays and roasting tins and charcoal! looked good i tell ye! After this we had an early night at 3am! which was actually early for us recently! our excuse was that it was xmas! The next day i managed to drag neil for some sight seeing of the Botanical Gardens for 3 hours - which was good - he even enjoyed it as there was a war memorial he was ...

... to head straight there. These guys at the centre are so dedicated. While we were there they had gotten a call out to rescue a koala being attacked by dogs . You can see into the medical room the poor little thing was so tiny and it's arm had been badly hurt. The guys at the centre look after about 10 Koala's on a constant basis as they can never go back to the wild but they try to ...

... getting pointers from the 10 years old on how I should skate. I took a frame to help with the ache in my arm that had developed from clinging the side... I fell and all I could do was laugh.... Geraldine wasn't too much help either as she laughed over and over... A wander around a local park for a couple hours before we grabbed a bite to eat and collected our bags to head for the overnight bus to Sydney