Mantra Quayside Port Macquarie

... but made up for lost time! The following day, I walked to the Koala Hospital, where injured and ill koalas are taken for treatment. While they have food all day around, some have supplemented diets to help with their issues, and during feeding time, the hospital does guided tours, explaining about their main threats, but human and natural. I walked back to the hostel going around Kooloonbung Creek, where I saw hundreds of bats, and a ...

Have you ever seen that show pimp my ride? Well let me tell you that our rides/homes far outdo anything you've seen on that show. First off we have scrappy J.P. and Mike D's purple station wagon.(yes J.P. likes to stick with purple vehicles) A powerful 6 cylinder 93 Holden Comendor, with an excellent battery, a mattress for sleeping, a blinker that doesn't like to turn off, and a gas gage that you have to hit if you want it to work. It also came with some fold up chairs and a fold up ...

... early as our bus to Sydney was due at 5:45am. Of course, the bus was severely delayed. In fact, we learned eventually that our original bus had broken down and it was a replacement bus that finally picked us up, some three hours later. So much for our getting up early! Nevertheless, we left Port Macquarie after an enjoyably short and sweet stay and were on our way to Sydney.

... this is where 'Timber Town' is, a smaller version of Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, Victoria. We mapped out our afternoon and after lunch Darcy and Fraser took part in a whip cracking lesson. It was harder than it appeared. The poor boys seemed to hit themselves more than they did the ground but they enjoyed it nonetheless. The steam engine is one of two fully operational steam engines in Australia, the other being Puffing Billy, that runs every day of the year ...

... like a deer a little bit wirey but not rough. We walked through the rest of the wildlife centre and saw spider monkeys (not native to Australia) emus, cassarowarys, parrots and lots of beautiful birds and crocodies and snakes. Of course we saw kangaroos and wallabies even white ones. We even got to feed them but dropped the food when the emu threatened to take our hand off along with the food. A thoroughly enjoyable visit. On the way back we dropped into a local ...

... the guests. He checked out the Falcon as well and reckoned it was worth way more than our asking price. In Sydney now with friends of mine from work, staying just between Bondi and Coogee in Clovelly. Getting ourselves organised for the next part of the trip and saying goodbye to the Flying falcon. Onto New Zealand on Friday and then its South America!

We left the Booths at about noon and head north to Port Macquarie. We got some more beach time at Flynns beach. Then we went into town, were I bought a pair of boots and $2 boogie board. Around 3pm we headed to a Koala hospital were they take in injured koalas and rehab them back to health. The whole idea is quite retarded, but it was a pretty ...

die tage bei Leslie waren Erholung pur, nicht an das man denken muss, nichts das man tun muss... einfach nur auf der veranda im schatten sitzen lesen, essen im fluss baden, den voegeln und zirpen beim musizieren zu hoeren und hab ich schon das gute essen erwaehnt... trudy und leslie haben sich ...

... inviterede os til Pers surprise party og vi takkede ja. Saa onsdag aften efter moerkets frembrud blev vi modtaget paa fornemmeste vis hos en flok mennesker vi aldrig foer havde moedt. En meget soed pige som bor i huset boed os velkomne med forfriskninger og vi noed en god middag. Vi foelte os virkelig velkomne og havde en rigtig hyggelig aften i godt selskab med forskellige australske typer: Naboer, ex-politimaend, dommere og andre som bare var flinke og aabne mennesker ...

A lot of people come away to 'find themselves' but this was never about that for Daniel and I, we never thought we had anything to find to be honest, until we got to Byron! This place is full of hippies that never left when they came in the 70's and a vibe that we seemed to feel as soon as we got off the bus!! We had found ourselves!!!!! We hadn't been here more than 2 hours when we ...