Backpacking

2/3/06 - Because it was another rainy day instead of spending the day in Port Ste

1/3/05 - We left Port Maguire early morning and drove down to Port Stephens which took around 4 hours. And again it rained all day!
Once we'd arrived we found a top tourist campsite located next to the beach. We didnt do much when we got there just went food shopping and stayed in the campervan playing card games and having a few drinks. It was raining to heavy for anything else, but when it does rain the campervan seems so cosy!

27/2/06 - It rained the whole journey to Port Maguire and once there it rained all night. We stayed in a campsite near the town centre and near to the beach. That evening we watched the film Red Eye which I really enjoyed and then just chilled out. The weather was pretty miserable!
28/2/06 - Today it rained on off all day. Its so strange its raining we've had nothing but sun before this. We had a look round the town and went to the pancake shop and had chocolate and ice cream pancakes, they were the nicest pancakes ive ever had! And we had to have them because it was pancake day. When we got back from town Alex and Amy had gone shopping and got pancake mix. So that evening we had even more pancakes!I think i'll need to diet pretty soon!
Weeny and I went walking along the beach and watched some people fishing by the sea and then we saw two dolphins! It was so nice there was a mummy one and her baby. They were getting so near to the fishermen and we could see them so clearly. They stayed around for a while it was lovely to watch.
It rained all evening and we couldnt be bothered making food so we all got a large pizza for only $5! so so cheap and it tasted good.
After we had dinner me and weeny just chilled in the campervan playing games, and weeny started to teach me how to play chess. But then we saw a massive cockroach run along the curtains! I screamed and rain out of the camper into the pouring rain and was to scared to go in until it was dead! So Weeny had the job of killing it, it took him ages to find it again and then he got it by spraying loads a deodrant and insect repellent on it. They are so hard to kill, he thru it outside and it was still alive. I didnt wanna go to sleep once it had gone because I thought there might be a family in the campervan, but there was nothing.

25/2/06 - After we left Nimbin it took us a few hours to drive to Coffs Harbour. Once there we managed to find a pretty good campsite located opposite the beach. Coffs Harbour is a small town but very nice. Its not as touristy as most places we have been to so quite quiet.
26/2/06- Today the boys hired a surf board and me and Amy did some sunbathing. After went to Woolworths to get some dinner. Woolworths arent like at home they are proper supermarkets over here like a tesco or asda. Had bangers and mash for dinner it was so yum! We have been eating pretty well not how i imagine most backpackers eat. That evening we all went tempin bowling it was two games for $11 (a fiver)! Such a laugh even tho I lost both times!!
27/8/06 - Today we left Coffs Harbour and made our way to Port Maguire. On the way we stopped off at a Candy shop and got to see it being made. It was quite fun to watch and we got free tasting aswell. So that was the best bit! We then had a look round the big bannana plantation and headed toward Port Maguire.

25/2/06 - Planned to do some surfing today but rained quite heavy all day. So instead left Bryon Bay and headed to Nimbin around an hour inland from Bryon. Nimbin is a very strange place!Its a hippy town stuck in a 1970's time warp! All the shops are painted in bold bright colours and in almost every shop you can buy weed and hash cakes. The people in Nimbin are quite strange because its the only place in Australia you can smoke drugs and the police turn a blind eye even tho its illegal. We went to the nimbin museum which was very weird, it was kind a like a junk shop and just had so many wierd things in it. As soon as we arrived at Nimbin we had people come up to the van and ask if we want any drugs and throughout the whole time we were there. They have a few cafes which you can smoke in and quite a few souvernoir shops. It was a really funny place to visit but we didnt stay to long around an hour then left for Coffs Harbour.