After a 7 hour bus ride from Sydney, we arrived in Port Macquarie, a small town on the East coast. Our hostel there - Ozzie Pozzie backpackers - was pretty nice with a decent room, a big clean kitchen, clean bathrooms, and a pool (not so clean). We spent the first day - Adam’s birthday - wandering around the port and waterway, and ended it with some very large glasses of Stella Artois. Australians don’t seem to have our standard North American sized pint. It’s either a small pint, or a massive glass. We clearly opted for the big glasses (hey, it was Adam’s birthday!), and drank while watched the sun set on the water. On our second day, we rented bicycles with the intention of biking the 45 minutes along the highway to the Billabong
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