10th March
Drove a fair way this morning, all beaches along the way! Stopped at Harrington, went to crowdy head, its all very beautiful and its lovely being port Macquarie. Had a long walk round, admired the buildings and beaches. On to crescent head, which had been recommended and found place to stay. Nice village with great surfing beach! And a river that went into the sea there, made the water a funny colour but the current carried you along and you had to get out and walk back and start again. Fantastic weather too although it rained all night. Saw my first wild kangaroo as we left but did not see any of the wild koalas supposedly about!!
11th March
Went to Trial Bay to see the fort, which was interesting but not that old. Was used to intern the prisioners of war. They sent you to be interned even if it was just your grandfather that had come over from germany! Most that were at the camp were sent to germany after the war even though they had never been to germany before the war! As we were leaving the fort, we looked off the cliffs and saw dolphins playing in the surf so we jumped in the car and drove down to the beach and robin and I went to play with the dolphins. Wonderful stuff!! Absolutely amazing, they are such playful creatures.
To Nambucca Heads and the white albatross caravan park! Weather fantastic, too hot. Jimmy doing loads of fishing but not catching much at the moment! Parrots everywhere, very noisy but very colourful. Have been told not to walk in the bush here as they have very deadly snakes!! Saw dolphins swimming in the surf again. There are sharks too but we are not pointing them out to robin or he would never swim again!. The caravan park has a lagoon with a pontoon in the middle and I was going to race robin to it but he thought it might contain the loch ness monster so he decided he would stick to swimming in the sea.

12th March
Went fishing again this morning but all of us feeling a bit crook and not up to much so just chilled and fished.
13th March
Went to Byron Beach, very lively, young sufers town. Nice beach but it rained so we went for a walk through town had picnic in the car and drove on again. Stopped in Maimi Beach, got comfie in motel and went for evening meal in the surf club, was really heaving, busy as. Everyone so nice, had a great walk and walked along the beach too. Lovely evening. Freezing cold pool at the motel but nice motel with comfie beds.
14th
Spent morning getting info at surfers paradise. Buzzing place bit like canary wharf but not to everyones taste, though I spoke to the owners of the motel last night, who are selling because everyone wants to stay in tower blocks instead of motels now, they all want high rise apartments. Reminded me of benidorm in spain. Drove on again to Tin Can Bay and did a bit of fishing as it was such a great place to fish. Went and got accommodation at the pub and met some charaters, some of whom were up at 5am talking very loudly and waking us up.
15th March
Up early and down at meeting point at tin can bay for 7ish. Fed dolphins in the bay, such a great experience. They feed the wild dolphins at 8am each morning and I felt honored to be able to offer a fish to the dolphin. Robin decided to go with dad to fish but I think he just didn’t want to enter the water with the puffer fish he caught the day before. After joining the boys for a bit more fishing we got in car and travelled to Maryborough, where the girl who wrote Mary Poppins was born. Her dad was the bank manager in the town and she was born upstairs above the bank. They have put a statue outside the bank to commorate her. Then back in the car Gladstone which was a bit of a disappointment beach wise but jim did not want to drive anymore today so we got a cabin and swam in the pool on site. Cause the beach was a bit muddy I caught up on my washing and stuff, just relaxing again.
16th March
Went for a lovely swim with robin after I had been on internet at robin had woken up. Then we started driving. Went to Mackay for brekkie then onto a beach cannot remember the name but it had box jellyfish so we decided not to leave and then drove on to Airlie beach where we arrived quite late. Went for a meal at the local pub and jim made us run through a swamp on the way back to campsite. This in a place where we have been warned about the crocs and snakes. I could have killed him but at least he gave robin a piggy back. We all arrived safe to our cabin and had to shower as so much mud had splashed up our legs and backs!! Nice day,apart from nearly being killed!!!
17th March
Paddys day and Jims wearing his paddy shirt. Robin and I went for a game of mini golf first thing. Will never play mini golf early again as every hole had some sort of creature in it. I had to put my hand in to get the balls out as robin is a bit of a wimp and horrified when after getting the balls once I looked in the hold and said ah what cute little frogs!! He said they were leaves until they moved and then he would not put his hands in the holes again. Anyway stuffed him the first game and we played again and both did quite well. I think it was because the man had been and cleared the holes of wildlife!! Went back to cabin and got jim to come for a swim in the pool and in fact we were in and out of the pool all day cause it was soooo hot and humid. Did go into town for a bit of shopping and then back in the pool, it was too hot for tennis but robin did go on the jumping pillow and ended up looking so red and hot we had to swim again. In the evening we went into town for a walk and a beer for old st pat, they had a band playing at one pub so we had a couple got Chinese takeaway and went back quite late to cabin but it was a lot cooler in the evening.
18th
Up and out to get hair cut. Raining, very warm but loads of rain so catching up with homework and blogging etc. Can get internet here but its expensive so will wait until tomorrow! Not that I am tight, but, it might even be free if I can get a signal where we stay tomorrow, I believe some maccy ds here have free internet too so I may try that. Well robin and jim are in bed still, cannot wait for the girls to get here but I think the y will wear jim and robin out. I cannot wait, someone to play with and chat to, everyone needs kaios in their lives and I miss my girls and their mess and chatter and laughter and sweetness, I really do. We have been doing very holiday things lately like going to beach and pool. There is not a lot else here, some of the wildlife is great, last night we saw thousands of bats, hugh they were to the bats we have seen everywhere else, it was like being in Dracula country. The birds here are also awesome. The parakeets that fly wild are enormous and the multi colored parrots are very very noisy, especially at dusk, you cannot hear yourself think. Frogs and toads etc I am not so enamored with though the kangaroos are cute cause I was expecting hugh great things but they are quite small (the ones we have seen) and terribly cute possibly cause they are so stupid. Lots of roo roadkill! Have also seen a few sea eagles but after the harpie eagles and conders and turkey buzzards we are a bit disappointed. We seem to have been spoilt. Anyway still raining this morning but never mind we are travelling as soon as the boys arise from their slumber and the tv weather said it is only raining here and south and we are going north towards Cairns to meet the girls on Tuesday,,,, 5 days as they will be at the airport at 8am. Will kill jim getting up that early!!!!! Whilst watching the news last night, one rather stupid man down the road from here saw a car run over a snake and decided to help the snake!!!! Well it bit him as he tried to move it off the road so he killed it instead and then tried to cycle to the hospital, someone found him unconscious with the snake beside him and got him the anti venom. How lucky is he. I will not be going to the aid of any snakes!!! I will be staying as far from anything poisonous as I can!
19th March
Drove for quite a way today, saw a snake crossing the road, Jim avoided it but the lorry behind us got its tail and it turned round and bit at the tyres, the car behind him finished it off. We did see quite a few roadkills today as well, roos, possums and snakes. Forgot to say about the possum at the campsite the other day, was very friendly and very preggers, you could see the babies moving in her tummy while she was eating, don’t know why she choose our verandah but she visited for a while, we had quite a crowd gathered outside watching her. Anyway, stopped at Bengal beach, had jelly stingers so we didn’t swim, just walked, apparently it has crocs as well but we didn’t notice. Then drove into the bush, one of the national parcs. Had to drive through a full up ford, bit like a small gushing river and when we got to the bit where we had to walk to the falls robin did not want to get out of the car, saw a wild turkey but couldn’t convince robin to take a walk so continued driving. Stopped at a place called Cardwell to ask information about where to stay as we had enough driving for the day. The lady was saying how good the barramundi fishing had been so we went to see a place at Hitchingbrook, which turned out to be a lovely cabin and then went fishing. Didn’t catch any as it was quite late but we did see load of quite big fish jumping so there must have been a massive one in there. Got bitten by loads of mozzies so gave up. Went to a posh place for dinner, should have dressed up really but they served us anyway! The pool in the complex that the cabin has use of is lovely too and had a great time there with robin in the afternoon while jim had a nap.
20th March
Enjoyed our little cabin and the pool so much yesterday we decided that we would stay for the day so I went over and booked and got some tennis raquets and balls for later. We did swimming went into town did some tennis and more swimming, its so hot here all you want to do is jump in the pool. Then we went fishing off pier, Angela 3, robin 2, jim 0, great fishing. Went to the pub afterwards, Friday night locals pub, meat raffle then karoke a great experience!!
21st March
Up and out, had to have a dip in the beautiful pool before leaving Hitchingbrook. Drove to Mission Beach and walked along it. Find it very hard having all that long sandy beach and you cannot swim. All of the beaches north of botony bay you cannot swim at cause they have jellyfish. We saw some of the jellies today at the rainforest center, the box jellies are quite big but there is another sort that is tiny and it does not hurt much when they sting you but you die a lot quicker!!! Got just outside Cairns and stopped at campsite, got sorted with a cabin and played all afternoon. They have an open air cinema on site but they are showing Tinker Bell tonight, much to the boys disgust, we are going to have a quiet night in as I forgot to buy any more mozzie spray and there are loads here and they carry dengue so will not take any chances, will shop tomorrow!