Coffs Harbour, Port Macquire and Hawks Nest

Sadly, not our car 

It has been a while since our last update! After Byron Bay, we drove to Coffs Harbour. We spent around three days in Coffs Harbour and then went on to Port Macquire. It has been some relaxing days with a lot of visits to nearby play grounds, a water park, a light house..... Australia really has some of the most beautiful beaches we have ever seen!

Port Macquire has a beautiful costal walk, and Astrid brought Fam in the Ergo baby to walk parts of it. Anders and Emi drove us to the starting point, a nice little lighthouse overlooking a little beach in a bay.

They then drove back to one of the larger beaches to walk the other way to meet us. After crossing the bay, the walk continues through coastal rainforest for a while before turning back to the coast and some larger bays. Walking into the rainforest, I have to say that I was starting to regret wearing sandals, thinking of snakes and spiders, but we had met some people closer to the light house walking the other way, and they did not look particularly worried. About 100 meters into the forest, I heard a large animal jumping away from the path. Turning my head, I see crocodile like feet and a huge body around the size of my own. If it hadn´t started to climb a tree I would have been sure that it actually was a crocodile. Now, I had no idea what it was, and whether it was dangerous or not.

Fam and I didn´t really stay, but hurried back to the light house. This is not my picture, to put it that way. But the feet and size was something like this.

I was wondering how to convince Anders that I was not bragging about the size... The comment was: "Ah, thats right, the lady at the hotel said that they are huge around here - a couple of meters... " And then he started to get rather irritated that he and Emi had not been with us to see it and that we had no pictures... It is supposedly a lizard or water dragon.

Port Macquire Costal Walk 

Port Macquire Costal Walk

We drove from Port Macquire to a little place called Hawks Nest. Hawks nest is close to Myall Lakes National park. You can drive along the coast into the forest and eventually you will find yourself between a little lake on one hand and the sea on the other.

I have attached a couple of pictures of the beach close to our hotel.