Coffs Harbour Coffs Harbour is the home of the Big Banana, which started life as a banana plantation, but morphed into a theme park and entertainment complex, with laser tag and ice skating. Before you get into town there is also the Big Bunch of Bananas, which is a billboard for a big fruit stall. Not quite as impressive, but at least it sells real bananas. Also on the outskirts of town is The Big Windmill, a restaurant and motel. Everything is Big in Coffs. ...

Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour Wikicamps has just paid for itself several times over. As we were planning to head to Coffs Harbour today, I plugged that into the app and checked out some of the caravan parks. Most were around the $30 to $35 mark, but there was one that looked really good but several people had said they paid $10. With further investigationing we found that they were trailing a new system where people who had vans that were self sufficient could...

Port Stephens, Taree, Port Macquarie Lookouts and Highways Leaving beautiful Nelson Bay today, so decided to check out all the lookouts before we go. There was one walking distance from our caravan park, so did this early in the morning before we checked out. Amazing views of the bays and the oceans. We then headed into town to check out a place we had found the previous day called Red Ned's Pie shop. It had a list of very unusual sounding pies, and had won ma...

We did go into Newcastle briefly after our Charlestown stop, but found it quite boring - just another big city. So we headed back for a quiet night at Belmont, with a ride and a stroll at the yacht club. We were quite happy to set off the next morning, setting our GPS up for Nelson Bay. Its instructions were confusing, as ever, and we ended up taking a wrong turn and missing the highway. Now when this usually happens, she goes a bit crazy and gets us to turn at ...

Belmont We left Umina yesterday morning, heading for "The Entrance" which, we were told, was a 'must see.' It dawned a grey and miserable day, so we thought it was a good day for driving. As we pulled in to the Entrance, the sun was trying to break through, but not doing very well. One of the big highlights of the Entrance is the pelican feeding on the waterfront at 3.30 pm every day (just a good excuse for the local fish shop to get rid of their rubbish, and ge...