11 Jul 2015

Tacking Point Lighthouse

posted in: New South Wales |

A deer crossing sign is one I don’t see very often in Australia.  This one seems to be meandering across the road, while the ones on the signs in America are generally leaping across.  :)  The only place I remember seeing any deer in Australia was in Halls Gap in the Grampians.  You certainly don’t see them often here, so seeing a sign for them is interesting to me and is one to add to my collection of roadsigns. While … Read More

11 Jul 2015

The Koala Hospital at Port Macquarie

posted in: New South Wales |

Every afternoon at the Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie they give a ‘Walk & Talk’ tour about the koalas while they are being fed.  Sounded like the perfect time to visit so we headed there one afternoon during our stay in the area.  In my head I was picturing some kind of indoor hospital with separate rooms and viewing windows.  So wrong!  All the koalas are outside in separate enclosures.  The trees in each enclosure are carefully separated from any … Read More

9 Jul 2015

Hello Koalas!

posted in: New South Wales |

Port Macquarie has this great thing, a koala trail called Hello Koalas.  There are about 50 fibreglass koalas, hand-painted by local artists, set up all over town and a trail map you can follow to find them all.  What a great idea to get tourists visiting all over town in an attempt to see all of them.  We weren’t the only ones headed around town with our camera snapping pictures of these cute and colourful koalas! The first one we … Read More

8 Jul 2015

Sea Acres Rainforest Centre in Port Macquarie

posted in: Life in a Caravan, New South Wales |

Port Macquarie is officially koala country.  It’s where we first started seeing koala crossing roadsigns, and there were many.  (Roadsigns, that is, not koalas crossing the roads!) This has nothing to do with the rest of this post.  But this guy finally, after much tooth wiggling and patient anticipation, lost his first tooth.  At seven-and-three-quarters.  It was a long time coming.  And it happened at the caravan park in Bonny HIlls, just south of Port Macquarie.  While we were at … Read More

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