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New South Wales’ Beaches: Walks by the sea
Posted by Squiffy on April 21st, 2009
My friend Jackie, who last year married an Australian and moved to Sydney, has just had a baby, Harry. Congratulations Jackie and Andrew, he is very cute. Jackie invited Dave and I to spend a couple of days with her, Harry and a friend at the family beach house on Copacabana (the Sydney one, not the Rio one). We had a relaxing day or two drinking lots of tea, eating Tim Tams and having a walk on the beach. Never able to relax fully on this camping trip, our main task was to clean and air our wet and muddy tent that has been residing in our car for the last week, waiting for a day without rain so we can fully dry it out. Taking the garden hose to the dirty canvas, we once again soaked ourselves in the name of camping, and wrestled the dripping heap onto the balcony to dry. Fortunately, it did, and once again we have clean, but slightly musty, canvas home.
On leaving Copa, we started our next road trip – The East Coast Drive. After five hours of is-this-really-a-highway driving we arrived in Port Macquarie and were pleasantly surprised by the coastal resort and its well located, tropical-feel camp site. We stayed a day to explore the small town and walk along the waterfront, before packing up once again and continuing the journey into northern NSW. I was pleased to see the volunteer ‘Driver Reviver’ stops that I’d told Dave about. Out West, these did exist but were usually at petrol stations, whereas the ones I’d remembered from my previous trip where road side stalls manned by volunteers providing coffee for fatigued drivers doing long trips. Often they were in the middle of nowhere. I don’t know if it was just because it was Easter, but the stall we stopped at gave out coffee AND biscuits! We’ll hope for more of these on our long drive into Queensland.
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