A varied day today. We had all day to head down to Port Macquarie, so we decided to take our time and head down the coast. We started at South West Rocks – a small town on the Macleay River. We had a look round the small, but interesting maritime museum, where one of the more bizarre exhibits (given where we are) was a British Seagull outboard. British Seagull...
It’s hot …. So, the best bet in the heat seemed to be to head for the hinterland. About an hour’s drive inland from Coff’s Harbour is Dorrigo. The Dorrigo national park is an area of remnant transitional rainforest and so was much cooler than staying on the coast. By the rainforest centre was a ‘skywalk’ – a boardwalk out...
Normal service was resumed today. Light winds, sunshine and temperatures around 25 degrees C. So, we decided to head just north of Coffs Harbour to do a walk from Emerald Beach to Moonee Creek. We saw Emerald Beach a couple of days ago, but we headed further on this time to Look At Me Now headland. Yes, it really is called that …. It might seem a more...
It turns out that, contrary to popular belief, the weather is not perfect every day in paradise … Today was a case in point. While it could hardly be argued to be awful, the weather wasn’t great today with very strong winds and some rain and thunderstorms. So, we pottered around Coffs. We headed initially to the Park Beach Plaza to sort out some shopping...
Sadly it was time to move on again today and it was a big day. After heading past the Big Prawn in Ballina we moved on to the Big Banana in Coffs Harbour. ‘Big‘ things have become something of a cult attraction in Australia. We saw just two today and have missed the ‘big ant’ (in Broken Hill), the ‘big avocado’ (in Duranbah), the...