Hastings Valley Motel Port Macquarie

whoooo its been hot hot hot!!!!!
i dont think ive been this brown in my life, though to be brown is acutally in fact not good, as Doctor anna malone tells me
skin cancer is dealdy hwre and srously high, you hav a seirous chance of geting it if you dont cover up, and slop on the sun cream!!
after spending the morning in Port maquierie main town and it basically is a town for the reitred ...

... being sent back into the wild, still carriers of the disease. Koalas with the worst chlamydia have to be put down so they can not pass on the disease to other Koalas. Sydney University are working to find a cure for this, but they have not yet found a complete cure. Some of the stories about the Koalas were heartbreaking. Perch Mirical had been caught in a bush fire and was so badly burnt that her eyes were burnt closed, and she had no fur left. After ...

... jak jsme tam zajeli, bylo nam jasny, ze jsme v nebi. Minuli jsme desitky vinic a vsechny nabizeji ochutnavky vina, nebezpecna oblast! Navstivili jsme 3 ruzna vinarstvi a ochutnali a nakoupili nekolik ruznych vin, ale pak uz jsme radsi odpalili, nekdo musel ridit a jeste nas cekala dlouha cesta. :-) Noc jsme stravili skyt v Raymond Terrace skyt buh vi skyt kde to bylo skyt. Rano jsme se vratili na pobrezi a pokracovali do pristavu Port Macquire, slunicko svitilo, a tak jsme ...

... or one fellow that hid under the umbrella and would occassionally poke his head out of the top. We got to watch their daily feeding of a soy milk/vitamin mixture and got loads of information about the hospital and koalas. One of the best stories was an elderly koala (over 20) who disappeared one day from her enclosure. She was found way up high in a tree a ways down and they couldn't get to her. They waited some days thinking she would come down ...

... When visiting a place if they claim to have 'The one and only' of something, it is always a good idea to see it, Port Macquarie has the one and only koala hospital in Australia, so we saw it. The Koala Hospital itself was located behind the historical Rota House and located within the Macquarie Nature Reserve. Rota House is a restored National Trust house built in 1890 by James Condon for John Edmund Flynn, a land surveyor who settled in Port Macquarie in 1885. We got to ...

Up early as we're leaving Byron today. If we remember one thing about the place it'll be where we got our tan back. It's been great all round with it being a really nice small town with a great vibe where you could spend weeks not days there. We drive to the lighthouse which offers fantastic views of Byron and the beach on the other side of the point which is heavily populated with surfers which even given my negligible ...

... in bright colours with messages and pictures on them where people have chosen to make their permanant mark in spray paint. It was intersting reading them, some of them are really funny and some of them very artistic. There are a lot of them that are memorials and I think this is such a lovely way to be remembered. The sea here is not as clear as other beaches we've seen, I don't know why. There is big surf here and there are signs on the beach telling us no ...

... a beach with a jetty) which is the local's favourite apparently, and then decided to push on down the coast again.



I'd found a place featured in the guidebooks which Katie really liked the sound of, a small town called Bellingen. We decided that it was worth a quick visit, even if it required a bit of a diversion.
Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia al_fey

... or peanuts and southpark characters, but with ours, it seems anyway, it's all fun and games until you mention (see) the word God on the side - then it all seems a little less funny... weird. A couple days later we then headed to another great spot, Woolgoolga. Here, we got a campsite right on the beach. The winds had died down now and the sun was out in full force. All was right in the world again and we were going to enjoy it. We got to a bbq early (5:30pm) while ...

... reflected off her at that stage. Now she seemed to have surpassed me in the league of tanned loveliness. The cow! We spent a lot of time that afternoon wandering along the beach and catching up on all the gossip. Emma was feeling a little hung over from the previous night, so we opted for a quiet Saturday night in. It was one of the best girly sleep overs I'd ever had. We were up early on Sunday morning to go on a dolphin cruise, which Maja joined ...