Day Nine: July 15th, 2013 Port Macquarie Waking in the night needing a wee is normally a pretty straightforward situation: you get up, you do your business and within 2 and a half minutes your ordeal is over. When you're camping, it's a very different matter. You wake up. You assess what woke you. You realise it's your bladder. You look at the time. You make an educated guess as to whether you can roll over and forget about it, or if you will undoubtedly wake u...

Day Eight: July 14th, 2013 Port Macquarie Up early to make the most of our day today (Elliot's idea - I enjoy a snooze). We left the campsite by 10 and took the path down to Nobbys Beach with the allure of seeing some whales. There was a small path cut out on the side of a hill leading up to a monument. We tackled it and weren't disappointed - from the top we could see some puffs way out to sea: whales! The monument had a few plaques on the side - sadly it bore...

Day Seven: July 13th, 2013 Port Stephens Peninsula to Port Macquarie I thought I was being clever when I set my alarm to the noise of the 'crickets', as it was nature-y, but struggled to decipher it over the noise of the birds this morning. We slept well (apart from a sleep talking episode from Elliot that woke me a few times - very normal in this household) and packed up the tent after letting the dew dry off as much as possible. We loved the camp site and wou...