Monthly Archives: July 2015

Coffs Harbour is famous for bananas.  Especially the Big Banana, which was one of the first Big Things in Australia.  Big Things are…um…a thing here.   This one is located right next to the motorway, you can’t miss it if you drive through Coffs Harbour.  We didn’t know until we go there that you can actually walk through the Big Banana.  Inside is various information about bananas and a video where you can watch some (green) bananas being picked and packed.  … Read More

I had really been looking forward to Coffs Harbour as it is a big tourist destination.  I expected a beach town, but what I found was a much bigger town than I expected that happens to be on the coast.  Not much of a beach feel to it, not helped by the winter weather while we were there.  The caravan park we stayed at was quite large with a water park and big playground and heaps of vans coming and … Read More

A deer crossing sign is one I don’t see very often in Australia.  This one seems to be meandering across the road, while the ones on the signs in America are generally leaping across.  :)  The only place I remember seeing any deer in Australia was in Halls Gap in the Grampians.  You certainly don’t see them often here, so seeing a sign for them is interesting to me and is one to add to my collection of roadsigns. While … Read More

Every afternoon at the Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie they give a ‘Walk & Talk’ tour about the koalas while they are being fed.  Sounded like the perfect time to visit so we headed there one afternoon during our stay in the area.  In my head I was picturing some kind of indoor hospital with separate rooms and viewing windows.  So wrong!  All the koalas are outside in separate enclosures.  The trees in each enclosure are carefully separated from any … Read More

Port Macquarie has this great thing, a koala trail called Hello Koalas.  There are about 50 fibreglass koalas, hand-painted by local artists, set up all over town and a trail map you can follow to find them all.  What a great idea to get tourists visiting all over town in an attempt to see all of them.  We weren’t the only ones headed around town with our camera snapping pictures of these cute and colourful koalas! The first one we … Read More

Port Macquarie is officially koala country.  It’s where we first started seeing koala crossing roadsigns, and there were many.  (Roadsigns, that is, not koalas crossing the roads!) This has nothing to do with the rest of this post.  But this guy finally, after much tooth wiggling and patient anticipation, lost his first tooth.  At seven-and-three-quarters.  It was a long time coming.  And it happened at the caravan park in Bonny HIlls, just south of Port Macquarie.  While we were at … Read More