Best Western Taree Motor Inn

... experience for us. There are so many national parks and well maintained camping spots on this coast that it is hard to choose but so far we have been delighted with our choices. We have tried to not go too far off the Pacific Highway as we are conscious of our need to make Melbourne for our ferry departure to Tasmania on December 4, but this hasn&#8217;t been a problem as our camps have been very accessible.<br><br>Time to move on to our next destination!!

It's been a slow start! Left Heath Street Saturday 28th March and spent the week at Mum &amp; 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 ...

... uma bela praia, muito comprida, e completamente vazia. Não temos a certeza, mas pensamos que era a 7 Mile Beach. Temos que dizer que a maioria das praias que vimos na Nova Gales do Sul nos pareceram boas praias de surf, mas não muito boas para apenas fazer praia. Mais tarde encontrámos um parque de caravanas espectacular em North Haven (perto de Port Macquire), junto ao mar, com excelentes vistas, e bastante tranquilo... quase não haviam crianças! :-) Desde Port Macquire ...

... 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 ...

Mis tres dias en port macquarie han sido muy reljantes, es un pueblito, asi que en realidad no hay mucho que hacer. Al final nos quedamos en un camping que esta justo al lado de la playa. Hoy fuimos a visitar hospital de koalas, eran mas monos!!! Ahora nos vamos en direccion de byron bay, el bus lo pillamos a la 1.15 de la manana!! pero asi ...

... aha tiddley hee tiddley hee, chris sunburnt the tops of his feet (ouch) and I got stung and burnt my lips (jeepers), we befriended a man who believed he had invented a soft drink he called the "shark attack" which i am happy to make for you all back home but have been sworn against revealing its ingredients, I saw a 3ft goanna (a very very big lizard), and yet even after all this time we were unable to gain respect from the feral bush turkeys....gobble gobble.

... we have of Kaola's at home! Other than that we've been doing lots of cool sydney stuff we definitely wouldn't be doing in January at home. Last sunday we went out on the harbour in a jetboat that did 360's etc which was good fun, it went so fast though that the water hitting you felt like bullets. We've got the ferry to manly and been to all the beaches and harbours and stuff so overall we are having a ball over here! On Friday is was ...

... its name 'four seasons in a day!' crazy i tell ya! Later that day we went to the beach at 6pm (still too hot) and played frisbee for half hour, tried for a paddle in the sea but it was f f f f freezing - odd as it was baking hot all day! freaky place i call it! That same night we went back an stayed in Hostel an met up with some of the Barmy Army, and managed to find a guy 'Paul' from Mansfield - not far from neil! So got chatting with them and the next day we ...

After leaving surfer's the first stop was a wildlife park (at 8am in the rain), so we all happily doned rain poncho's and trotted off into the park, where we met George the koala (yes, violater George!!). Also had a near death momnet when walking out of the Asia Aviary. Maria casually mentioned there was a spider mere inches from my hand (it was one of theose doors with ...

... to our journey and will put my navigation skills to the test. We stopped by a nearby petrol station for a tank refill but it's still closed too. We waited for several minutes for it says on the sign that it's gonna open soon. This is the first time I've ever seen a queue on a petrol station here in Australia. One thing we noticed though is there are a lot of signs in the area and the towns are so close to each other so there's a very small ...