Wine tasting...it's tough, but someone's got to do it! We left the small town of Clarence quite early and after a detour to Mainland to get some supplies we arrived in the midst of the Hunter Valley with plenty of time to taste wine. Our first stop was the original wine makers in this area-Wyndhams. It is possibly the most exported and famous wine from this region although we learnt that the grapes are actually collected from all over Australia. The man givin...

Kute Koalas Port Macquarie is a nice seaside town and we made the most of the good weather by taking a 9km coastal walk. Well we didn't actually walk the whole way but we did walk for a good 2 hours. We passed Flynns beach and admired some boogy boarders who actually looked quite cool as there were no surfers about! After lunch we drove to the koala hospital and saw some extremely cute koala bears who had been rescued. I would love to see them in the wild but ...

Coffs Harbour city centre is not along the waterfront like most coastal towns in Australia. However, it does have a few nice beaches and a great jetty leading towards an island you can walk along. To begin with James and I did some shopping in the town, looking around a local food market and salivating over the delicious food. We walked along the jetty and to the end of mutton bird island and took a dip in the sea. This killed two birds as we hasn't had a pro...

Waterfall Way We were heading back inland to have a look at some more waterfalls! the road is called Waterfall Way so we were hoping to see some top quality falls. Our drivers get to the road was not very pleasant. The roads were full of pot holes and we couldn't see a spot of blue sky. It chucked it down with rain and it was further than we had thought to the nearest rest stop. We were rewarded on the next day with blue skies and a spectacular first waterfa...

Bad Times James couldn't get Monica into gear unless we turned off the engine. Fortunately we weren't far from Ballina and James managed to drive us as far as a campsite. The owners were very friendly and looked over Monica, by this time she wouldn't get into gear at all. The owner guessed it would cost around $300 but we had to stay the night as it was Sunday evening. The following morning we were ringing round the local mechanics and I nearly passed out whe...