We had chosen Bonny Hills as our next spot about 100km's from South West Rocks.At this stage of the trip I felt I was in need of a good meat pie, it has been a while.Walkerston (Mackay) Bakery back home does a good pie and you may remember our last pie on tour was not worth the effort! So while travelling we had noticed a sign Fredo's Famous Pies over 50 varieties. So we were on the lookout for this famous shop and fingers crossed that we had somewhere to park the big girl while we devoured these pies.I had spotted it up ahead "James there it is" there was a god! (plenty of parking).So of I went in search of the best pie in the world. DA NA NA NAAAHH!! (your right Sis that really does help)OMG I have never seen so many pies. They must be good because the walls were covered in awards.Decisions, decisions.I returned to the car with sausage rolls for the kids, 1 Crocodile pie (river chicken!) and 1 Kangaroo pie. Now where to eat it?

We decided to head into a rest stop at Kempsey. These pies were worth the stop. Charli ate pretty much most of James crocodile pie and loved it, she had a few bites of the Kangaroo one only to say "it is ok mum but I do like the crocodile one" Kids?After an enjoyable stop we were back on the road.Only to have to stop again, 13km down the road. Kylz reckons it was the hardest last 4 kays she's ever done!? Kangaroo pie seems to have a real laxative effect according to Kylz. Let's just say the Kempsey rest stop got a work out, OMG, WTF.

Bonny Hills was on our road trip loyalty card and we would receive a free night camp with them.$26 for two nights now that is a bargain with a view! Bonny Hills is home to the stunning Rainbow Beach. (NSW version) This had caused a few misunderstandings when other travellers had mentioned Rainbow beach, yes we have been there it is great.We had realised that we were talking about two different Rainbow Beaches.

While here, we had decided to take a trip to Timbertown, situated in Wauchope (pronounced War-hope), 20mins west of Port Macquarie. Timbertown is one of Australia's best heritage parks, this village has been re-created so we can see how the early pioneers lived. There were demonstration of a working old timber mill, saddler, winery (here they actually make their own wine and sell it), blacksmith, and working bullock team (Charli did love the bullocks). We got to go for a ride on the horse drawn carriage, Chels was holding on that tight head down not saying a word while Charli was saying "abit rough mum what a naughty horse, this is fun" then she spotted the bullocks in the distance and at the top of her voice "mum bullocks, mum bullocks" she was very impressed with the bullocks.It is moments like these I should have the video camera on, the things Charli says and does are pretty funny. We decided to head back into Port Macquarie for lunch at Mike's Seafood. (Hay Street, next to Rydges) If you are ever in Port Macquarie go there, it would be the best fish & chips we have ever had-fantastic, thanks Mike.

We arrived back at camp just before a pretty savage little storm struck. We were busy battening down the hatches of our own camp when we got a graphic demonstration of what wind does to unsecured annexes.By the time I ran across to try to save it, the gale force wind just ripped the awning off the caravan in front of us!We will say the anti flap kit (www.aussietraveller.com/antiflap) that we have for our van definitely works when you see that happen, they are worth every cent.

After much discussion we had decided on our next stop just 95kms south, in the holiday twin cities Forster/Tuncurry.See you all there!!