The last of Australia

I arrived in Coff's Harbour on April 5th. Coff's Harbour was nice. It is a small town with a few attractions but some really nice people. Some of the things that I did were jump of the Jetty, go to the big banana, walk the Habitat walk and check out to Mutton Island. I enjoyed the 3 hour walk around the habitat walk. Most of the trail was in good conditions,but due to rains the Habitat walk was flooded and some of the trail was underconstruction so I recommend checking out the status of the trail before walking all the wayaround. The big banana was fun! It had delicious frozen bananas with chocolate and nuts or sprinkles and banana ice creamand ofcourse many banana merchandise.The sky walk through the banana fields were short due to construction and weather was no longer fully open. Lastly the pier was lots of fun. It is a long pier that I jumped off it twice.I jumped when it was just a bit after high tide so the jump isn't as big as it can be but it was long enough that I registered that I was falling for an extra long time! It is a good good place to go to relax and escape from the big cities. The YHA there was good and had organized events that brought people together. After the small town of Coff's Harbour I headed for Newcastle.

It was a wonderful place filled with lots of shopping, interesting architecture. Some of the things that I did was explore the lighthouse

which was not much to see as it was under construction, but it was a nice walk out to the

point. The YHA here was awesome it was a converted gentleman's club and it looked like one inside and out. From Newcastle I went on a tour of the Hunter Valley. The next day I left for Sydney again.

The YHA harbour was so wonderful last time that I stayed there again but using the epack this time is was almost half of the price. Then we stayed in the YHA Railway

where our dorm was actually an old rail cart. It was pretty awesome and great way to finish off Australia.

After being in Sydney for a week last time we were there and seeing most of the things we

wanted to see. We booked a trip to the blue

mountains.We went with the Happy Coach which was decent. We had a range of people from the middle aged to the young from all over the world. The driver was late but friendly and talked a fair bit about our surroundings. It was also the cheapest tour we could find so that was a plus too. Once getting out to the blue mountains it was beautiful.

The tour took us into the Blue Mountains national park and saw our last kangaroos and walked through spider laden grass. We headed to the Jamison Valley look out and saw the famous Three sisters rock formation and hear the story of their creation where a father turned his three daughters into stone to save them from death. I walked the Furber steps down and along the valley and saw waterfalls rain forests and old mining areas. On the way back up the Valley I took the steepest railroad in the world! It was a wonderful day and the last one I had in Sydney Australia.

I enjoyed my stay in Oz it was fun and filled with lots of different kinds of weather. If you are interested in surfing and taking it easy Australia is the place for you. If I think of New Zealand in comparison with Australia then I would say I loved NZ because of the wonderful and friendly people there, the beautiful scenery and great places to explore.