We're on the road again! We have free time between now and school holidays so decided we'd load the motor home once more and hit the highway. We were held up not far out of Sydney by a long cement bridge span falling from a truck, but after an hour's wait, we could get going again. This time we headed north-west from Raymond Terrace - Morpeth, the beautiful country of Patterson and Dungog, and on to Muswellbrook. The caravan parks were all full, mostly of permanents - miners - there are a lot of coal mines in the area. However, we were able to park at the end of a road in the caravan park for the night, and being self sufficient, we were quite OK with that. Today we drove through Scone, 'the horse capital' ... read more

We are back at Woolgoolga, we arrived and were setting up just as the Melbourne Cup was running! I was wondering why the campers were all sitting together sipping champers! One year we must get involved in the festivities again! We went to look out to sea and there was a whale, not that far out, leaping out of the water. We thought we'd missed them - there are supposedly over 12,000 whales returning to the Antarctic after breeding in northern waters but we've seen only 2 or 3 this year. It's been a good couple of days. From Byron Bay we drove along the coast towards Ballina and found a couple of new (to us) beaches - Suffolk Park and a very nice one, Tallow Beach at Broken Head. These are around the southern side ... read more

Well, here we are travelling again. This is just a quick trip .. north to make a furniture delivery for Jason and one we wanted to do before covering the motor home for summer. We left home on Tuesday, calling in to visit friends Carole and Joe at Taree and spending the night at Port Macquarie. Yesterday we kept on our fast trip north staying overnight at beautiful Ballina. The waterway there is truly great, the beaches wonderful as are all those on the NSW coast. Our only diversion was to Grafton where we once more went to see the lovely jacarandas in flower. We love to drive up and down the Grafton streets to see the mauve flowers on the trees and carpetted on the ground, they really are a beautiful sight. The prettiness continued ... read more

I think the beaches from the Sunshine Coast in SE Queensland and down the NSW coast to Victoria are some of the best in Australia and Byron Bay is amongst them with it's long fine white sandy beach. Though we had a couple of cloudy days, our final day was sunny though a bit windy, nice to walk along the beach with the sun on us. We thought we must go up to the lighthouse before we left Byron Bay - it's been a few years - so once more our little motor home was puffing up the hill. The views from up there were magnificent .. to the north is Byron Bay beach, a long arc of sand which stretches all the way to Burleigh Heads, to the south, a long stretch of beach where ... read more

It was hard to tear ourselves away from Noosa - it's so lovely there and we had perfect weather. We added another night to our stay and fitted in a day at the beach, a ferry ride down the river to Noosa Heads - always lovely to be on the water and see the parkland, shops and houses from a different perspective - and lunch at the Surf Club at the end of the beach. We had a front table and enjoyed our view of the beach and the swimmers. We left the caravan park yesterday morning and drove around the streets of Tewantin, passing a couple of houses we were very keen on winning in Art Unions several years ago. This road took us to the car ferry which crosses Lake Coroibah, the waterway that ... read more