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 ...

On Thursday 2nd April we said goodbye to Mum and Dad in Brisbane and headed south to Byron Bay on the Greyhound. We left Brisbane in torrential rain and arrived in Byron, NSW with exactly the same weather at lunchtime, so camping was out of the question really. We ended up at a decent enough hostel right by Main Beach and settled ourselves in for two nights until the rain cleared. Byron Bay is known for its hippy laid back ‘no problem man’ culture and in so...

Airlie Beach and Whitsunday Islands On 28th March we all caught an afternoon flight north to Proserpine on the Whitsunday Coastline and back in the tropics. We didn’t get to Airlie Beach till after dark so we couldn’t see anything! We arrived at our caravan park and we booked a lovely log cabin which felt very much within the rain forest. I think the most important task of the evening was finding the closest pub so my Dad wouldn’t have a heart attack! 10 m...

Brisbane Part 2 We camped a caravan park in Newmarket, 4km out of the city on Saturday 21st March and had a great time listening to the lorikeets and kookaburra’s at dusk and then dawn on Sunday! We headed into Brisbane on Sunday to pick up our hire car for the next 3 days and instead of a intermediate style we were upgraded to a standard which ended up being a Holden Sports car.....two exhausts, spoilers and bright orange included! Daz loved it haha!!! We c...