Drove up to Hunter Valley.  A wine and golf area about 2 hours nurth of Sydney.  We went wine tasting, again.  But, we found out we like NZ wines better.  Oh,well we made new friends. Today we went golfing at a Greg Norman design course called the Vintage. We saw lots of kangaroos and wallabys.  The weather is warmer her...

We did not get to the Hunter Valley when we visited Australia in 2002 so we rectified this oversight. Hotel: Aussie Rest Motel Lunch: Massively large sandwiches at Oakvale Winery Dinner: No dinner. Cessnock rolls up the sidewalks very early and we missed dinner because we were doing laundry.

What we planned to do today, and what we eventually did turned out to be completely different. The plan was to head back to the coast to get some beach time at Terrigal Beach, just north of Sydney. We did get there but sadly it was pouring down. There didn't seem any point in hanging around so we headed north to the city of Newcastle. The weathe...