Saturday 18th April 2009 We caught the 9.30am bus to Sydney and arrived into the city we fell in love with at New Year at lunchtime! The closest campsite we could find to the centre of the city was about 7 miles north in Lane Cove, right on the edge of the National Park and river. Luckily the Greyhound stopped in a suburb called Chatswood and we were able to hop off there and catch the local bus 2 miles down the road…perfect! From the bus stop the campsite was...

So after coming back from Port Stevens we checked back into the YHA in Newcastle for 2 nights (most probably one of the best hostels we've stayed in in OZ) The sun was shining so we spent the rest of the afternoon down Newcastle Beach, only a short walk from the hostel. The ocean was its usual lush bright blue colour and the waves were massive! There were lots of surfers and bodyboarders enjoying the surf! We took a boogie board down with us from the hostel and ...

Tues 14th April So after a night in Newcastle, we hired a car and drove 30 miles back north (onto a peninsula that Greyhound buses dont run to) called Port Stevens! We only heard about this area through another couple Lisa and Doug who stayed here a few weeks back and fell in love with the area. Apparently so much nicer than Newcastle and lots to do! Luckily the weather was on our side and we arrived by lunchtime! We only had the car for 2 days so we had to cra...

Port Macquarie So we left Yamba (MaClean) on a wet afternoon and headed south on the Greyhound. We arrived into our next destination at dusk (5.30pm) and walked through the town towards the river mouth to the next holiday park! Port Macquarie (pronounced Macourie) is the biggest place we’ve been to since Brisbane! It was the third city in Australia to be built, mostly by convicts and has many 19th century architecture. It was dry and the beginning of Easter w...

On Monday 6th April we left Byron (on a dry morning thank goodness!) and headed about 70 miles south to a little fishing town called Yamba. It's not a must stop destination with backpackers yet but with a new YHA hostel which opened in December and great surf beaches, Yamba is slowly becomming a place to stop on the east coast as many people have described to us its what 'Byron used to be like 15 years ago!' The Greyhound dropped us off the the Scottish town of ...