Today we drove from Tass to Tooleybuc in the river land. We are spending our last night on our holiday, and Dennis' birthday, in a very nice motel, with a view over the golf course, next to the river Murray. It's been a long drive today and we've travelled through a few changing landscapes. We've seen cattle, sheep, cereal crops and cotton fields. The cotton growers use open water Chanel delivery for flood irrigation from the murrumbidgee and the highway is lined...

We had a lovely relaxing stay at pacific palms and recharged our batteries. Yesterday we drove around the many beach coves in this area. We stopped for lunch at 'frothies coffee' at a boat club, a quaint little spot on one of the many lakes in the area. It was a very windy day and quite cool I actually had to put on long sleeves for the first time in weeks. John came over for dinner but the rest were sick with colds. We had a good chin wag and he gave us advice f...

We stayed at Sawtell beach caravan park, it's huge and meanders around an undulating terrain near a river mouth with a wide expanse of white sandy beach. It is set around a community swimming pool, picnic area with playground, oval and croquet club. After leaving Sawtell, we drove along the beach road, where possible, and there were endless views of bays, beaches, surf, and holiday makers. We called into Port Macquarie, a huge town/city, again with spectacular v...

We drove down the east coast today calling in to Byron bay, crowded as, couldn't park, it's so hard when you have a trailer on, to find a large enough space and most of the parks are 45degree angle parking. We stopped at Lennox head a bit further south for coffee, its a bit smaller but a very nice surfing town, coffee was good! We drove through coffs harbour where the big banana is it hasn't changed in 36 years since we were here last but the town has grown massi...