On friday we planned and booked the east coast leg, the last part of our Oz adventure.
We then decided to have an early valentines day as it looked like we would be on the bus Sunday (14th Feb) for a long haul from Sydney to Coffs Harbour (7hrs).
We went to the Lindt chocolate cafe in Darling harbour then to the movies and watched Valentines day (chick flick but Laura seemed to love it and Mike might have thought it was ok too as long as you don't tell any of the lads)!! Scored top browny points!
The next day we had a day out with the Macdonalds to palm beach (where they film home and away). Cool to buy some drinks in the Summerbay cafe and see where they filmed it all, but no celebs made an appearance while we were there :(
As it turned out we had a chilled day sunday. Laura loved her card and Lindt bunny ( delivered a little late and after alot of unnecessary prompting), Mike had a look around and eventually found a card that Laura made from her note book- nice!! The romance isn't dead yet!!??!!
We took the overnight bus that evening saying a fond farewell to the MacDonalds and Sydney!!
After a full 20 minutes sleep that night we arrived in Coffs harbour jaded and ready for bed at 8am!! Luckily once the hostel opened they had a room ready so we crashed and caught up some of our sleep. In the afternoon we hired bikes and cycled about 10km looking around the place...........it was ok but a little sleepy and cut short as no gears or breaks gets a little boring unless your on a hill then a littl scary!! So we swopped bikes and headed back and to the beach and body boarded the rest of the afternoon. Laura tried to book a scuba session but we got the call to say it was cancelled so missed out on getting eaten by nursing sharks!! We drowned our sorrows in the Y Knot cafe looking out over sea!!
we moved into a shared dorm that night and made friends with a nice couple...you'll never guess where from......ipswich....and one was a physio...so we felt quite at home with them....Maybe a liitle too at home.. as Laura was packing up her stuff in the dark without her glasses on trying to be quiet, she managed to pack away one of trudi's flip flops!!! without realising!! they were leaving early the next morning. fortunately mike wasn't as quiet and woke them...which started the mystery of the missing flip flop....much to laura's embarassment she discovered it in her bag before they left... we're pretty sure they believed that it was a complete accident!!! whoops!!
The next day the surf was a little lame so we hired a stand up paddle board.....easy to use on the flat but sooooo difficult to surf in waves, Mike has the grazes to prove it, but 10/10 for effort!!
It was a very sad day though and one Mike will not be able/allowed to forget for some time...........Mike got sand in Lauras beloved camera!!!!!!! Laura would like to say she was very brave but Mike feels he is still suffering the repercussions and may continue to do so!! Some wounds just don't heal quickly!! This is further exacerbated by the grinding noise and inability to focus the camera now has.........Mikes in so much trouble!! :(
After the paddle boarding it was back on the coach and heading to Byron Bay, alot shorter jouney only 4 hrs!!
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