http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , New South Wales , Crescent Head en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:01:21 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:01:21 UTC Ok so now we had the van and we were truckinrsquo. What a feelinghellip.wind in your hairhellip moaning in your ears. We had just 7 days to get to Brisbane in order to meet Duncan and Lisa at the airport. That was nearly 1000km to cover but to try and enjoying exploring the coastline too. We left Penrith on Monday afternoon stopping for supplies at Woolworths yes itrsquos kind of like http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-297777.html We have spent the last few weeks in Wollongong doing a bit of surfing Brett trips to the doctor for my broken toe Kara and checking things out in Sydney and the northern beaches area where we have never been. And they are some amazing beaches and close enough to the CBD of Sydneyyet parts of the it feel like you could be hundreds of miles away. You can either get their by a ferry from Manl http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-294698.html Fourteen of us from the AustraLearn group booked a weekend surfing trip to Crescent Head Australia. It was one of the most incredible weekends I've ever had We left Friday early afternoon for the six hour drive North. Saturday morning when we woke up at 730 a few other girls and I went to the beach and saw whales just off the coast. Saturday we had two surfing lessons and Sunday one more http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-291859.html Hey everyone..ok...so today may be my FAVOURITE entery ever....because today was probably THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFESo we went out this mor ning and scouted out a few beaches to find the best waves...and finally we found them...along with a family of dolphins...i was out on my surf board when i saw a few waves over a bunch of dolphins swimming about...so i made my way over they were right up http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-241281.html HEY EVERYONESorry today this is gonna have to be short and sweet because there's quite a queue forming behind me queue would be a line in canadian but its what all these fancy accent people call waiting... Anyways...omg where to start...STeve may be the best host ever...i had a great time staying with him and he took very good care of me Ryan he wouldn't let me call you the other night i'm s http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-240599.html Happy Christmas from AustraliaFeet planted firmly on the board I'm riding the wave into the beach Finally My previous wave ride in was 3 days ago and distinctly wobbly. This one felt good I arrived at 'Surfari Central' near KempseyCrescent Head on the Christmas Eve afternoon after a long bus ride from Sydney full of getting to know you conversations and some surf DVDs. We were out in the http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-231899.html A little slow getting this update on here and again not a lot to say since we have been doing a lot of the same. Sun surf sand and chilling. Which is just fine by us. Just fine.We chilled for a week at an amazing caravan park located right in front of a really good point break in Crescent Head which is about an hour and half south of Coffs Harbour. You could actually poke your head out the doo http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-229683.html Well it's finally happened today is my last day in Sydney Whilst I've had a great 6 months here it's not for me in the long term so figuring I should probably see something other than Sydney's CBD whilst I'm in the country tomorrow morning I head off up to Cairns for a 3 week road trip down to Brisbane. After that who knows... at the moment I'm having trouble planning past tomorrow Anyway http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-149052.html I never thought I'd see the day where I would attempt to go surfing. But then my whole trip has been about challenging myself and going out of my comfort zone. So this was definitely one of those challenges..After saying goodbye to my job friends and home for the past 3 months me and Loza set out on our 5 day surf course with Mojosurf up the Eastcoast to their camp base at Crescent Head. The inst http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-127452.html Hey everybody just wanted to throw up some pics of all the good times and great people I met during my surf tour. We spent the whole week surfing and partying together. We were up at seven in the morn every day to go surf and we talked around the fire at night. At night we formed team competitions as to who was going to wash the dishes from dinnerthanks to all my teammates i never washed any http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Crescent-Head/blog-64130.html