Prepare yourselves for cuteness overload!

We left the beautiful Baron Bay at around 10am and it was a long journey up to Port Macquarie and I so wish we had got more time in this beautiful coastal township. I am meeting Deborah this evening whom I met on the Tasmanian trip so I messaged her the minute I arrived at 4.30 pm and she was already in town and waiting. She reckoned I might like a drive up the coastal road and then a home cooked dinner at here’s and she was right. She had roasted a chicken and made a lovely salad, perfect!

It was a really lovely evening just chilling in her home surrounded by lots of books, paintings and super friendly cat! Deborah is an artist and I wish I had taken some pictures of them too. The scenery here is beautiful and the beaches gorgeous, lots of craggy cliffs beauty at every turn in the road. It’s a very chilled relaxed vibe and I liked it and was very grateful to Deborah for giving me the luxury of seeing it properly compared to the rest of the group.

Up early and off to the Koala sanctuary before we travel onwards on another long journey to the Blue Mountains. We skirt Sydney to go up to them. More about them in my next blog!

The Koala’s…………The Sanctuary/Koala hospital is a charity funded place where Koala’s are rescued and sometimes get returned back to the wild, however, more often than not they are not fit or able enough to return, many are from the huge bush fires a few years ago, some from dog attacks, disease or after being hit by a car.

They are so cute, slow, kind creatures, it is now against the law to cuddle them and honestly I was quite happy not to as many of them have Chlamydia (mostly in their eyes).

The inpatient list….

I am posting the best of my pics, I have so many I just loved this place. One quite scary one, see if you can find her!

They get there names from the places they are found. The signs outside their enclosures explain where they were found and what had happened to them. They are free to climb the trees, well those fit to do so and are very well looked after here. As you can see you can choose to sponsor them too.

Onwards to the blue mountains. We stopped in a roadside cafe for lunch and to all of our shock it was simply fabulous and a highly recommend should anyone be travelling this route from the Port to the Mountains.