Best Western Taree Motor Inn

It's been a slow start! Left Heath Street Saturday 28th March and spent the week at Mum & Dad's in Milsons Point. Then on to Moss Vale to spend some time with the Hindmarsh clan before our northward journey. Really so wonderful and special to have that time with all of the family, we all loved it. So ...

... or the 9 mile beach, or the 1 mile beach we saw on the map... anyway, it was really nice so we stayed around for a good while. We have to say that most beaches we saw in New South Wales seem to be great for surfing, but not all that great if all you want to do is soak in the sun and go for a swim. Later that day we found a great caravan park at North Haven (not far from Port Macquire), right by the sea, with a great view, and very quiet... almost no children around ...

... it seemed we had this gorgeous part of the world to ourselves. The weck was a mirage - we could see it ahead of us but the further we walked the further away it seemed to get! We finally reached the wreck in perfect time for lunch, settled behind a big dune out of the wind and had a rest (walking for that long on soft sand is definitely ******* the calves!). The wreck sits eerily in the water just feet from the shore, golden with rust with huge waves crashing ...

... advise and brought some salt to sprinkle on them. I get a shiver down the spine thinkin about it but thankfully we didn't have to use any salt. We stopped off at Rawson Falls firstly. This waterfall is in the middle of a nature reserve, home to a number of types of huge tree. After a walk in the forest where we came across a porcupine and a look at the falls, we had a bite to eat. A few sambo's later, and a bone shaking ride down the road, we came to ...

... experience with Game failed to prepare me for sub-aqua navigation, quite remiss of them if you ask me. However I soon understood what was required of me and headed off into the murkey depths attempting to keep my heading. If anyone has ever tried to maintain a heading smimming across a strong current 12m underwater then they, like me, will understand the futility of it. I may aswell have been asked to make flapjacks in a spacesuit for all the success I had, but thanks to the ...

... part we bummed around the town for the rest of the day, looking for an elusive bikini for Jules. On the bus to Byron Bay I ended up sitting next to a girl from Kings, which was pretty wierd. Chatted to her for a bit and next thing we knew we were pulling up in Byron Bay. Had a tasty meal with Jim and Ash and then meet up randomly with two girls from our Asia trip who were working there. All good fun:)

Tuesday 19 December Following the advice from Anny at Amigos we had set our sights on staying further south than Coffs Harbour - maybe in Nambucca Heads. Just as we were packing up there was some commotion outside and it transpired that a number of people had had the number plates stolen off their cars during the night. Fortunately this did not include our car but pretty annoying for the people who had been affected. One thing that ...

... same place in St Kilda which was a good night out and our french room mates came down and joined us for a while, we got the tram back quite early at 12.30 which i managed to fall out of and damage my knee/s and elbow! my excuse - they are not like the trams in Nottingham! they have a massive step onto the ground/road and i didnt look and went flat on my face! but didnt realise how much id hurt my knee until later and it was all discusting. That taught me didnt it!!!

... It was starting to get a tad cold since the sun had gone so we headed back to the hostel. Next morning we just went to the beach and later on just walked around the town , we were looking to go Whale watching but with the storm approaching it had all been cancelled so we grab a few cans and headed back to the hostel to pack and have a few drinks before leaving the next day for Coffs Harbour

... essaierai de donner des nouvelles de mon voyage en amerique latine... ca me fait bizarre de quitter l'australie (en meme tps il fait froid...donc ca me va tres bien!!) Non sans rire je sais pas si je suis contente ou triste un peu des deux... Enfin en route de nouvelles aventures et comme on dit qui vivra verra...(et j';ai bien l'intention de tt voir!!)