wildlife

It rained a lot while we were in Coffs Harbour.  We watched the weather while we were there and chose a sunny afternoon to walk to Muttonbird Island. TurboBug decided he had to push his pram.  The entire way.  He’s such a toddler.  This walkway goes all the way out to the island.  Ocean on one side, a boat marina and fish market on the other. We found these mosaics along the way.  I’m wondering if these were commissioned or … Read More

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

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

All I have to show for our time in Harrington are some pictures of the kids riding the go-carts at the caravan park we stayed in.  We were so tired after our time in Sydney that we didn’t do much of anything during our stay there.  This park was not busy and when the kids hired the go-carts they were allowed to have them for a couple of hours.  They had been nagging asking to ride them for two days … Read More

We knew we’d only have a couple of nights on Bruny Island, so after we set up camp we drove down to Adventure Bay to do the walk to Grass Point.  The kids were not too thrilled to be taking off so soon after we got there, they wanted the chance to explore the campsite.  The Grass Point walk is part of the Fluted Cape Walk in South Bruny National Park, which is one of the 60 Great Short Walks … Read More

Our next stop after Freycinet National Park was the Tasman Peninsula.  We stayed in Dunnalley at a spot right next to the beach.  The first day we were there we headed down for a look.  Thank goodness we did because it was the only good beach day we had during our stay there.  The tide was out, the waves were calm, the water was shallow and warm.  But there was something magical about this beach that we hadn’t anticipated. There … Read More