Week 19

Off to Newcastle we go, as you can see below, travelling towards a major city over the school holidays isn't a good a good idea, well it wasn't that bad really, we only stopped a couple of times but spent most of the time in 1st gear at 5-10kph, but hey we aren't in a hurry.

Above is Gunny and Suz - Dom's old school friends, it was great to catch up ( and we will be back )

They didn't want to be on the blog - so bugger 'em....

We went into Sydney a couple of times - why I don't really know, but it had to be done.

Sydney = Tolls, the bastards have 3 tolls linked together in the space of 10k when you get into the city, and nothing you can do about it...Bastards.

While in Sydney we went to the Australian Museum, it wasn't dear and pretty cool, we also went to the art gallery to see "Picasso" well not Picasso - cause he's dead but his art work, it was good and the whole gallery was cool.

While in Newcastle we stayed at Jas and Mel's ( Dom's brother ) pictured above at Stockton Beach.

Ahhh..Stockton Beach, if you have a 4x4 of any description this is a must - sand as far as the eye can see, very dry and very soft and very - very much fun.

I have never seen so many sand dunes that you can explore, it just kept on going - about 40k I think.

40k of sand is a lot of sand........................

Did I say Awesome.......

This is "Tin City" as seen in "Mad Max", true.

People still live here.

Week 18

Another couple of hours down the road and we arrive at North Haven, its about 20 minutes south of Port Macquarie and about 2 minutes from Laurieton

There was a big low pressure system off the coast and the surf was awesome (to look at) we weren't going in it though....

Very rough - but awesome.

Hi Shell, we saw this and thought it was cool, and its big.

This is the view from the lookout at North Haven, it was very high up and a nice drive.

This is a very old lighthouse at Crowdy Head - probably about half hour south from North Haven.

Dom caught this freaky looking yellow catfish-eel thingy? just off the rocks at North Haven, check out the water, it was so clear you could see the fish - bit harder to catch the buggers though..

Hey again Shell, we found this big axe near Wauchope - west of Port Macquarie

Week 17

A couple of hundred K's down the road and we have arrived at "Corindi"

Its an awesome little park about 35ish K's north of Coffs Harbour.

 

We had storms every day for the first 5 days, it was pretty cool to watch them coming over - nothing major which was good, we did get quite a bit of rain out of a couple though.

Hey Shell, this may not look like the "worlds biggest tackle shop" but it is about as long (deep) as a football field, way too much to take in.

I caught this 37cm Bream off the beach, as you can see, I was pretty happy - and he tasted good too, we stuffed it with some green prawns, garlic & butter wrapped him in foil and baked it on the webber - Tip = stuffed with prawns is a winner...

Merry Christmas to all our loyal viewers = thats you...

This was our Christmas lunch, it was only us, so we spent most of the day snacking.

Shell check it out, its a big bananananananana....well it is big.

Some of the locals, as long as they stay off the road - its all good.

Week 16

Week 16, thats 4 months - Go Us......

This is Dom's brother "Noddy" and our sister in-law Maryann ( see last week ) They just wanted to be on the blog - cause they are special.......

We are now at Broadwater just west of Evans head - south of Ballina.

Dom went fishing at Evans Head, got a few bream ( nothing huge though ) and a couple of these puffer fish - little hard to fillet though...

Hi Shell, This is a large Knight just outside of Ballina, lots of big things in this area. 

Storm out off the coast at Evans Head

Hello again Michelle, now this is a big Prawn.

Don't know whats doing? it used to be the information centre for Ballina, now its just a big empty prawn.

View down a cliff at Byron Bay

I've done it now.. The most Easterly point of Australia, now we've only got South, West & North to go....

 This is what the most Easterly tip looks like.

Lighthouse at Byron Bay.

week 15

We are off again. We spent a night at lake Monduran - nice spot, just wish we had a boat and we would have stayed longer.

Next stop was Tin Can Bay.

This is the view of the coast at Rainbow beach from the sand blow.

Hey Shell, its a "big" sand blow....

Another weird tree, the vines look awesome, don't know if the tree likes it though?

Rainbow Beach ( north & south )

Coloured sands - maybe thats why its called Rainbow Beach....

 This was taken from the moon.

Well it could look like this.

Another sunset from Noddy & Maryann's at the Gold Coast

And the view from the van...........Tops. ( and free )

The video is for Mark, I'll try and get some more for ya.

they just take forever to up-load.