Port Macquarie: sun & surf

The boardwalk; where people sit and chat and fish

This will probably be the last blog update, as in a few days I’ll be flying back home from Sydney. The last few days have really been packed with fun though, and Port Macquarie really is the most awesome place on the planet. It’s a groovy beach town with lot’s of surfers and hardly any tourists,  and the tourists that are there are mostly aussies who are visiting for the weekend. 

Back in Sydney I was lucky enough to meet a nice german dude called Stefan, who happened to go to Port Macquarie as well, and he offered me a ride on a whale watch tour-boat (he works on it). At first I didn’t think it would be that spectacular, but that was because I thought we would only see the whales from a big distance and they wouldn’t be doing anything cool. More proof that I'm an idiot sometimes:

A whale "breaching"; apparently their way of scratching an itch

Also, as I mentioned before, Port Macquarie has lots of beaches, and as the weather was really good, I spent quite some time just reading a book and chilling out there. They’re also quite pretty..

 

The koala’s are abundently present as well, and on a visit to the koala hospital I even learned some stuff about them. Too bad I couldn’t really take any pictures, as they like to sit really high up in trees and the camera on my phone doesn’t zoom…  Nevertheless, here’s an attempt:

Yep, that's a koala right there - just so you can recognize it when you run into one.

The last day in Port, today, I went surfing, which is pretty tricky at the beginning, but after a while you manage to ride your first wave and it’s just really cool to do. This is definitely something I’m gonna be doing again (Linda, you promised to teach me to windsurf. I’m keeping you to that one, just so you know it). Tomorrow is a day filled with riding the train back to Sydney (what joy), then one more day there and after that flying back home…