My Summer Holidays, New South Wales

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So since I have been MIA for a while, I have a lot to catch you up on! The past 2 months have been filled with adventures.

To Start: The big road trip! We started on Dec 28th, and were on the road until February 2nd Since it was such a long trip, I’ll tell you about the highlights and some pictures from the first half, through New South Wales and continue with the rest of it in another post!

So here goes, the most exciting events of our trip

- Sleeping in a really dingy motel on our first night because all the campsites were full
- Setting our tent up for the first night (of camping) at the bottom of a hill : it rained ALL night long, and we woke up to a nice waterbed in the morning!
- Meeting some ‘bogans’ (Australian word for hick) and spending New years with them! They took good care of us, feeding us some bannic bread, fresh caught shark, and donating us a small gas camping stove! Little did we know at the time, that the stove would come in very handy in our later days!
- Dave running over a curb and popping the front tire
- Camping with kangaroo’s and having them eat out of our hands
- Walking on many beautiful beaches and cliff top hikes
- Sleeping in the car because yet again we left getting a campsite to the last minute!

To be continued with Road trip part 2 soon!

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Photos

Goanna Friend
This Goanna lived beside our campsite we stayed in for a few days! Here he is catching some food our neighbor threw to him

Bannic
Dave enjoying the bannic bread our neighbor's made for us

Nambucca
A nice spot for our picnic lunch

Diamond Head
A beautiful hike we did in the pouring rain!

Bobbin Head
Nice spot for our picnic dinner... yes, there is a theme of many picnic meals going on here!

Sleeping in the car
Not quite as enjoyable as one might think!

Cathedral Rocks
One of our many stops along the way

Opps! Pooped Tire!
side note: changing a tire on a hill, with the wheels turned it NOT a good idea!

Sand Dunes
Sand Dunes at North Durrass

Pebbly Beach
One of the nicest beaches we found

Lobster anyone?
We found the shell of a lobster while beach combing at pebbly beach

Rock Shelf
Only appears at low tide, and drops right off into very deep water at the edge!

Flooded Road
Driving through the flood!

Comments

[Sara]

So Jealous
looks like you had tons of fun, don't think i would be able to do that. The beaches you visited look so beautiful, definetly makes me want to see that someday. Anyways there is a snow storm here today so see those pictures makes me even more jealous.hahaha Hope to talk to you soon miss you Sara

[Sandi]

Camping is such fun
Well hello again. Nice to see you are still enjoying your travels. As usual your pictures are fabulous. I feel like such an untravelled hick now! How much longer do you have off school? Looking forward to more of your photos. Just so I can drool as I look out over the slushy snow Love A. Sandi