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Port Macquarie
... the Pacific Ocean. After setting up camp David and I decided to take in the views and sat on the breakwall with a coffee while watching boats, jet ski's, people fishing and just enjoying the sun.
Later that morning we walked along the break wall into the town centre to do our weekly shopping while the kids scootered. It has become tradition for holdiay makers to ...
Wild Koalas and Krazy Kookaburras
... actually longer!! No wonder I feel like I'm going to break. haha. OOO I see a shop, only a chip shop but I'm starving so I have some chips just to keep me going to get me home to cook something. I'm just sitting outside eating and see a sign that says 'DO NOT FEED THE KOOKABURRAS, THEY SWOOP DOWN AND TAKE YOUR FOOD'. OK I'll keep a look out, nothing out of the ordinary and none of the pesky birds aruond or that I can see anyway. Some more people ...
ON CHANGE L'HEURE, L'AUTOMNE EST ARRIVÉ!
... promontoires, ses plages environnantes, son phare de mer majestueux. En fin de compte, on ne restera que 3 heures à Byron Bay(trop jeune et dispendieux (une contradiction..) pour nous!), le temps d'acheter des plats thailandais à apporter car on a encore 1½hr de route avant l'arrêt final de Tweed Heads et Coolangatta(villes jumelles) . Ces 2 villes débutent au sud la fameuse côte ''GOLD COAST'' où on y retrouve Surfer Paradise, de même que Miami et Palm Beach (sérieux! , ...
Been There But Haven't Done Any Of That
... to hang out, charge the laptop and cameras and use the kitchen for dinner.
After a night in one of the main beaches car park, we set off south to check out some of the surf conditions, it looked pretty choppy but we were keen to have our first proper surfing session.
We hired the boards then and there for $15 an hour and cruised the white wash superhighway for two hours and getting away with only paying for one hour.
The previous day we decided to ...
Pretty Port
... but the most notable is the strangler fig, a tree that starts as a seed pooped out by a bird onto another tree, which then drops roots down to the ground, stretches up to the light, and eventually wraps itself so strongly round the original tree that it kills it, leaving a complex mix of holes and branches crossing and re-crossing over each other. What a horrible tree!
We take another walk up the coast, and establish yet ...