Quality Inn Hw Boutique Port Macquarie

... koala half way up a tree! My final day involved getting onto a speed boat and going whale watching. The whales went a lot closer to the larger, slower boats, but still were in reasonable range of us for some half decent photos. I had a long chat with a girl (mainly because she had verbal diarrhoea) who has convinced me to read the Celestine Prophecies, and then caught the night bus at 4am the next morning, heading to Coffs Harbour.<br>

... and a stove......quite luxurious. Next we have Hurricane myself and nicks awesome beast of nature/ van. Hurricane is a 5 speed 1984 Toyota Targo fully equipped with "ro bars,"(bars on the front used for ramming kangaroos) a master bedroom with a photon style couch, a living room with two reclining chairs, a kitchen and a walk in closet(sort of).Hurricane tends to be a little bit over zealous at times, and trys to stay running after we turn it off. Here are some pictures of our rides.

Yesterday we found a nice little day use area to park and cook up dinner. the sunrise wakes us up every morning and we get an early start to our day. its easy to wake up at sunrise when you go to bed around 10! today we travelled up the coast past numerous white sandy beaches. palm trees have started to show up all over the place, i sign i believe that we are getting into northern ...

... Timber Town journey is significantly shorter than the Victorian one (approximately 15 minutes) but quite enjoyable. The bridge is travels over is the long single curving train track in Australia. From the train we walked over to the lake and Darcy and Guy asked if they could have a turn on a paddle boat. Fraser also wanted to get on but he went on with Dianne. Apart from almost killing ducks trying to find food in our path, we had loads of fun and Darcy and Guy ...

... I wonder how many hundreds of vineyards, thousands maybe, there are in Australia). Another delightful lunch al fresco with a summer rose to top off a thai salad. Back at the hotel we took time to soak up a bit of sun (hadn't stopped for that since Roratonga) and a swim and turned in early for an early start to continue north the next day. Friday March 7th- one week left in OZ and so much more to see. Because we spent an extra day in Port Macquarrie we drove further ...

So back on the road again, we left the bohemian town of Byron Bay for our next stop of Port Macquarie. With the rain unrelenting, we arrived at the small town and checked into a dorm. As the rain died down , we explored the town on the promise of seeing wild koalas on one of the walking trails and dolphins coming into the harbour. After endless wandering in the rain, the wildlife didn't make an appearance so we settled for a couple of beers and a pizza and called it a night. The next ...

... place. Over half of the Koalas are there because they have clymidia, horny little guys. They are so slow and lazy. From there we spent some more time at the beach and climbed a large overlook called Nobby's head. Gave us great views of all Port. We parked our car in a park and grilled hot dogs (which were disgusting compared to American hotdogs ...

... bestens um mich gekuemmert, hab schon ein richtig schlechtes gewissen gehabt weil ich wirklich bei gar nichts helfen durfte... einmal haben wir einen ausflug nach port macquarie gemacht und einmal zu einer kunstgalerie udn ansonsten hab ich mich einfach nur verwoehnen lassen, richtiger urlaub also...

... den aften sagde Per og Pai at vi bare kunne slaa os ned i den tid vi nu havde lyst til at blive, og naar man siger saadan til Rasmus og mig, saa bliver tiden hurtigt et par uger lang :-) Imidlertid havde Rasmus paa uheldig vis smidt sit Dankort i en groeftekant i Sydney, saa vi havde god grund til at blive. Rasmus' mor gjorde et godt stykke arbejde for at faa sendt et nyt dankort fra Danmark! Hos Per og Pai oplevede vi stor gaestfrihed, ja, vi foelte os naermere som ...

... into Goldie coming off the beach, so we got talking to him and he told us that he was DJ'ing at a club that night, so we obviously took this as a personal invite and of course we went along. This club reminded me of Back to Basics in Leeds, so as I was reminiscing of my clubbing days wondering why I gave it all up, Daniel is trying to work out which song he was playing as he hasn't ...