Yuraygir National Park

We spent a week in different camp sites in Yuraygir NP. We did a few walks, a brief canoeing trip (and got rained on) and a lot of lazing about. Here is a rather large guanna. I nearly had a heart attack the first time a saw one of these! They wander around the camptites looking for left over BBQ.

These are coastal emus - much smaller than their bigger relatives. We had the mum and 4 younsters running about in front of the van. Nic took a video of them and their crazy legs. They were hilarious.

This is the first head of a joey we've seen in a pouch. What an adorable family.

Diving at Fish Rock

Here is me with a bat fish. He wasn't very big!
This is the emormous turtle that swam at Nic. He was so beautiful and graceful.

You can just see Nic behind the shark. We dived with nurse sharks - harmless we are told!

Limeburners Creek NP/Hat Head NP/South West Rocks/Nambucca/Nymboi Binderay NP/Coffs Harbour

We've been staying in a few National Parks recently. It's been freezing at night as we've been so high up. I never expected to be so cold in Australia!

This is a kyte - we've seen a few of these recently.

The kangaroos are getting friendlier!

Just a taste of the coastal views that we're getting.

This is fish rock where we went diving. This is the first time that we'd been diving with sharks (photos to be added on a separate entry). We also saw turtles and one was about 3 feet long and swam right into Nic - a bit scary! We went through a long cave and had to use torches (again a first for us). As we were so late setting off (long story) our second dive ended up being a night dive and because of this we got to go back 2 days later and do the same 2 dives again for free.

This is the lovely beach at Nambucca.

This is me hugging an 800 year old Tallow wood tree - Isn't he amazing! There are pockets of the most amazing rainforest here. It's a shame so much of it has been destroyed.

Here is Indiana Jones!

Moree/Bingara/Gunnedah/Tamworth/Oxley Rivers N.P./Werrikimbe N.P./Ellenborough/Port Macquarie

We visited the Wildlife centre in Gunnedah and saw 5 cute koalas sleeping, eating and poohing.

We also saw this baby wombat with its mum

and this rather scary emu.

We spent 2 nights in national parks; beautiful, peaceful places. One night we had a campfire and sat out until it was too cold. We heard lots of strange noises in the forest and dingoes howling at night - very eerie.

This is the stunning Tia gorge.

In Port Macquarie we visited the Koala Hospital and saw lots of impossibly cute koalas with very sad stories to tell. They feed milk to some of the koalas twice a day with a syringe. They have 130 volunteers here and I'm not surprised - what a great job!

Here is Bea, she fell 20 metres and weighed 445 grams when they rescued her.

This is Barry - looking a bit sad and bedraggled - it was raining on the day that we visited!

After the hospital visit the sun came out so we walked to the beach to watch the many surfers.