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Monday, April 2 to Sunday, April 8
Buladelah to New Italy
Our time in Buladelah finally came to an end on Tuesday, April 3 after the madness of Easter passed. Now we could continue our trip north, through a few deviations, of course. Instead of taking the road immediately, we drove directly to the coast road to seal rocks. We had read that the walk to the lighthouse was good and that you could often see seals on the rocks. Hence the name. A storm had been predicted, but fortunately it passed in a matter of minutes and was boiling again. The lighthouse was located on top of an steep climb that was not great for us in our vests! Unfortunately, we didn’t see any stamp either. We drove forward through the Booti Booti National Park with a lake on one side and the sea in the other. The highlight of the park was the Green Cathedral. The Earth is consecrated and banks are perfectly placed in hundreds of palm trees. It would be a beautiful place for a wedding apart from mosquitoes! Our impulse of the day was not over and we advanced through Forster, Tuncurry and in Crowdy Bay National Park. The road was in gravel and was corrugated for about 13 km. He took about an hour just to get to the remote beach. We rest on the beach before boarding the super steep mountain of Middle Brother. While we could see that the top of the mountain was wrapped in fog, we (mainly me) thought it would be a good idea to drive. To start, the road was quite steep before being so steep that we had to drag ourselves in the second march. Then the fog arrived. We could barely see a meter in front of us on a single lane road and a cliff just by our side. Finally, he got too much, so I tried a three -point turn in the black fog. Out of nowhere, a cyclist came to the hill almost towards the side of the truck. What I was doing up there, I have no idea! We return through the mountain eventually capable of breathing again before sleeping in a free rest area. Our next stop was Port Macquarie. We did not spend too much time there, but the highlight was the Koala hospital that dealt with wounded or sick Koalas. Early in the morning is the best time to see active koalas. They are normally asleep for 20 hours a day. We spent two nights in Hat Head National Park, one at the southern end of the park and another at the north end near the southwest rocks. South West Rocks was lovely and finally we managed to spend a full day on the beach. [easy-image-collage id=1486]Traveling further north, we have a beautiful breakfast in Nambucca Heads with views where the river meets the sea. After breakfast, we decided to go in Waterfall Way. We originally wanted to travel as west as the Dorrigo National Park, but, after having seen another good waterfall, we drove 100 additional kilometers to see EBOR’s falls. Fortunately, we managed to sleep for free just above the road. The waterfall was good, but there was no way to go down to the base of the falls without shaking or taking crazy risks![easy-image-collage id=1487] Dorrigo National Park is part of the Tropical Gondwana jungles, a world heritage site. Gondwana was a supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years before separating the creation of the continents we know today. The east coast of Australia is home to a series of tropical jungles that are directly from that period. It was amazing to walk through the tropical jungle that was millions of years and past Antarctica trees that are only here. There were also many waterfalls that border the road and inside the tropical jungle itself. I will probably write a separate article about where to find the best and most accessible waterfalls. We have achieved so many free camps in this section of coast and we were free again on the outskirts of Bellingen; A small pretty city. It is described as the east coast gem by Lonely Planet. It would probably not go as far as that, but the beer was good and the main main street. The last day of the week I spent some great distances beyond Coffs Harbor (we stopped in a market and in the great banana) to be able to reach Byron Bay before the Easter holidays. On the route, we stopped in a small town called Maclean who proudly shows his Scottish inheritance with lamppings![easy-image-collage id=1488]Are attentive to update next week.
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