Away from Home

Over the past few weeks we've travelled north, staying at Tuncurry overnight then on to Coffs Harbour for 10 days, on to Armidale overnight and then to Louise and Wayne's wedding. We've never stopped at Tuncurry and its was lovely as it was out of tourist season and not many about. Forster which is just over the bridge seemed larger and more of a business area.

We've been to Coffs Harbour before and enjoyed it this time as much. We didn't do the travelling as last time, the furthest was Sawtell and this is just down the road. Not every day was sunny, so it was walks about the area and even walking into town. I think we did an average of 8ks a day. There were markets on two days and went to both. At one I bought a silver necklace with a dragonfly and John got talking to the maker. He made arrangements to put a new stone in John's ring and would post it back home. We walked the sands at Sawtell as well as Coffs on the good days, and we collected alot of cuttle shells for the birds. We climbed Mutton Bird Island and the view from the top looking back over the bay was beautiful. Eating was another pleasure especially with no washing up to do afterwards. A visit to the Big Banana was a disappointment as the light rail no longer operated but still least learnt a bit more about bananas.