Blog Day 179 Tues 1st November 2011 Today we head into Port Macquarie. We find some outdoor BBQs & soon have breakfast sorted. We have a stroll around the town & pick up a couple few things from the supermarket. We then discover that the Tourist info/theatre (The Glasshouse) has free Wi-Fi. So we move the van & jump in to have a catch up on good old Facebook & e-mails etc. We then pop round to a shopping mall just to have a wander around. We ...

Blog Day 177 Sun 30th October 2011 So we say goodbye to the Canadians & hope we catch up with them further down the coast somewhere & leave Byron bay for the long stretch towards Sydney then headed for the Great Ocean Road. First stop Coffs Harbour. On the way down we turn off the highway and drive up, what can only be described as, a bloody big hill! At the top we are treated to an amazing view all the way back down the coast. We also get our bearings...

Blog Day 173 Wed October 2011 So even though technically we have just spent the night in a camper on a patch of grass for a ridiculous price, we still get given a check out time of 10am. Why we have no idea, it's not as if they need to do any housekeeping. We are making our way to Byron Bay today though we aren't checked into the Nomads until tomorrow night we decide that we will find a rest stop somewhere near there later on today. We pop into the Nomads to i...

Blog Day 172 Tues 25th October 2011 Up early today to drive to the spit which is a beach area located just outside of the main beach surfers. Here we sort out some breakfast & have a good tidy up of the van. The thing about travelling is the constant pile of washing. We look forward to the day when we no longer have to purchase tokens to do our washing. Drying clothes is a nightmare too, the constant tumble-drying is now taking its toll on our clothes, mea...

Blog Day 171 Mon 24th October 2011 Today Queen Elizabeth is in town. Her majesty has come to Brisbane & will be cruising down the river to South bank, to open up the new rainforest walk which was damaged by the floods last year. It's also time for us to check out of this amazing apartment & start living like true campers. After packing away all our things we take a walk down to the boardwalk. They said in the papers that her Maj was due to start her ...