Raving with Mr Ferry Costenat Home in darling harbour seeing jayne and New Year!!!!!

The next step on my travels was the east coast town of Bellingen, again another recommendation given to me! After being dropped off in Uranga a small sleepy picturesque little hamlet just off the main road, I was picked up and taken to Bellingen. Bellingen is typical small town Australia but with one difference it has a really strong "alternative' feel to it, this means it has quite a young atmosphere and lacks and "small town mentality' The place wh...

On advice from someone at Newcastle (not THAT Newcastle the other one!) I went to Port Stephen's with the objective of seeing dolphins and hoping to see some whales, it was the very end of the whale breading season for this year! After searching for whales in New Zealand the mere mention of them and the chance that I might see them I was off there like a shot! I caught the overnight bus and eventually arrived outside the Samurai backpackers. If you ever find you...

Tonight arrived in Newcastle but bus and arrived very very late! I'm shattered! This Newcastle is very very different from the UK version as its a surfer town with beaches pretty much, although i did pass through Wallsend, Jesmond and Hexam on the way to get here! Saw a puffa fish washed up on the shore

TToday i have decided to head out of the big smoke of Sydney and travel the 2 hours by train to Katoomba and the famous blue Mountains. After my kilometer climb uphill with my rucksack (i really should have a bit of a clear out! i'm starting to get the gist that i won't be needing my ski jacket in the 30c plus heat!) I arrived puffing and sweating at the worlds most comfortable backpackers YAY!!!! the first thing i noticed about this place was the noise of the an...