Blogs from Laurieton, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

We reluctantly left Woolgoolga yesterday in the worst possible conditions - a dust storm, smoke from bushfires and very strong wind. We would have liked to have had a couple more nights there but it was too unpleasant. We had a last look from the headland, a drive around Coffs and then visited Doug's sister Barbara at Macksville before turning off the highway and booking into the Big 4 caravan park at South West Rocks for the night. This is a great park for children and was choc-a-block with holidaying families - they have so much entertainment and fun places for children there and to top it off, wallabies come into the park in the afternoon to eat the grass in the park. They were quite oblivious to all the people passing them, no doubt they've ... read more

So there it was again, the Christmas silly season. Down in Oz (southern hemisphere means a hot, rather than a white Christmas) this means any excuse for Xmas drinks goes ! So, I've had invites to 2 sets of Christmas drinks, and 2 sets of lunches.... Most new year's resolutions die before new year's eve has arrived down here! Plan for my Christmas was to head up to url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=dunbogan+nsw&ie=UTF8&z=13&om=1Dunbogan NSW and spend time with Peter and his family. To say the all live ON the beach is saying too much, but they all live less than 500m away from the Pacific anyway ! Not a bad spot for Christmas ! Flew up to Newcastle, and then hopped on a shuttle bus to Laurieton. This being the Saturday before Christmas, it meant traffic, lots of it..... so ... read more