Blogs from Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

We had been planning to head further down the coast, however, due to expected windy weather on the coast, we decided to tackle Dorrigo Mountain, and head along the Waterfall Way. We were a bit unsure about towing a caravan up the steep mountain range, but we figured we had a new car and the caravan is not overly long or heavy, so off we went. It was a steep pull up the narrow mountain road, passing first through Bellingen again. It wasn’t long though before we arrived at Dorrigo Mountain Tourist Park, where we set up. After lunch, we drove around the town and headed out to Dangars Falls, which were quite impressive from the lookout. We decided to walk down the gorge to the foot of the waterfall to get a better view, taking ... read more

Marg and I jumped into our Horizon Motorhome and spent 6 days traveling from Brisbane to Coffs Harbour, Dorrigo, Guyar, Mann River, Casino and back home. The weather forecast was not good and night one we experienced a loud thunder storm. When we got to Dorrigo it looked like the weather was going to close in quite quickly. The Drive from Coffs to Dorrigo climbs up through the Great Dividing Range, past the Newell and Sherrard Falls and to the Dorrigo Rain Forest Centre. These are very old rain forests, a mixture of trees with tangled vines and buttress root systems supporting the trees in relatively shallow soil. There is a magical bird chorus in the forest, red necked pademelons on the fringes of the forest. There are many fungi and lichen varieties. Had the weather ... read more

Here I am again having survived a little trip away from my home base here in Port Macquarie. 3 years ago when I was here Jenny and I took a road trip through the hinterland of this part of NSW...and we drove through some lovely country - so finding myself within striking distance of this area agian - off I went to Dorrigo National Park and the Waterfall Way as the road is called. Got myself a room in the Bellingen Hostel - lovely and friendly and relaxing - verandahs to loaf around on with beautiful views of the mountains and down to the river, hammocks to lie in while reading a book ...and lots of nice travellers to talk to. The place was spotless and very efficientlyy run...thanks to Graham. ( I could have got ... read more

We had two more places to visit along the Waterfall Way before heading off to Dorrigo. Yesterday, we ran out of time and, we did not get to see Metz Gorge or Bakers Falls. The road out to Metz Gorge was quite rocky and resulted in us getting a flat tyre. Steve put the spare one on and we had to drive back to Armidale to get a new one. We were just not meant to see Bakers Falls. After spending the morning waiting for the guy to fix the car we went back to the caravan park and hitched up to continue our journey. We drove to Ebor and had a picnic lunch at the Ebor Falls. They were fabulous. The water was pounding over the two falls at Ebor. Ebor Falls are located on ... read more