On the road - Brisbane to Sydney

The adventure continues ! We went to pick up our home for the coming 7 days... A 4x4 camper van. Imagine how people reacted when they saw two girls driving this monster !!! 2 x 90L petrol tanks, 2 beds, a fridge, a portable cooker, cookery utensils, a tap... perfect to discover the east coast !

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Les aventures continuent !! On est allees chercher notre maison pour les 7 prochains jours... Un 4x4 transforme en camping car. Imaginez la tete des passants en voyant 2 filles conduire ce monstre !! 2 reservoirs de 90L d'essence, 2 lits, un frigo, 2 plaques de cuisson, des ustensiles de cuisine, un evier... parfait pour decouvrir la cote est de l'Australie !

Our first stop: Byron Bay

Small sea-side town, with many shops, restaurants and funky coffee shops. A long stretch of white sandy beach and its perched lighthouse.

We had also decided to go and see an 100m waterfall inland, drove for an hour to this national park... Global warming once again... no water there arghhh 

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Notre premier stop: Byron Bay

Petite ville balneaire, petits magasins, restaurants et cafes longent ses rues. Une immense plage de sable blanc remplie de sufeurs.

On a egalement decide d'aller voir une chute d'eau de 100m de hauteur dans un parc national... malheureusement, pas une goutte d'eau... rechauffement climatique !

Second stop:  CoffsHarbour

2 more hours south, we were heading towards this town where Nat had booked our campsite for the night. Sophie is driving and decide to put the GPS on towards the campsite... guess what... the campsite that Nat booked was 500 km away !!!! You are not surprised ?! I can tell you Sophie wasn't impressed !!! One more FLOP !!!! Nat could not have a better nickname !
Went to the tourist information center and booked another campsite for the night.

The main attraction was the harbour, where we went for a stroll and ate fresh calamaris (Sophie's favorite)

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Deuxieme stop: CoffsHarbour

2 heures au Sud de Byron Bay, Nat avait la tache de reserver le camping pour la nuit, Sophie conduisait lorsqu'elle a mis en marche le GPS vers le camping en question... Vous n'allez pas en croire vos oreilles... Nat avait reserve un camping a plus de 500km de notre destination !!!! On a finit a l'office du tourisme juste avant la fermeture pour trouver un plan B.

L'attraction principale de la ville etait la marina, on a fait une ballade et mange des calamars grilles.

Third Stop: Port Macquarie

On our way down to Port Macquarie we stopped at a national park name South West Rocks. Sophie's friend recommended to us. Really warm day, nice lighthouse, and amazing beach reachable only by trekking down for 20 minutes.

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Troisieme stop: Port Macquarie

Sur notre chemin, nous nous sommes arrete a un parc national au bord de l'Ocean 'South West Rocks'. Journee tres ensoleillee et tres chaude, magnifique phare, et petit plage desertique en contre-bas.

Pie stop on the motorway - 50 types !

Fourth and final stop: Hunter Valley

We parked our little camper on pit 18 and left it there whilst we went to discover the Hunter Valley wines. An entire day of tasting over 40 wines, from 10am onwards, olives, cheese and chocolate. No need to say by 12 noon, our palet had already had plenty and it was actually quite hard to concentrate in the afternoon. Speciality of the Hunter Valley is the Semillon wine! a crisp and dry white wine. A lovely day all in all! After 2 nights in Hunter Valley, we then headed off towards Sydney. 

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Quatrieme et dernier stop: Hunter Valley

On a gare notre camping car sur l'emplacement 18 et sommes parties en mini bus a la decouverte de la hunter valley. Une journee entiere dediee a la degustation de vins, des 10h du matin, plus de 40 vins, olive, fromage et chocolat ! La specialite de la Hunter Valley etant le vin blanc semillon. Une superbe journee et nous voila parties pour Sydney !