Brenda and Woy enjoying Budgeroy NSW

Our view across the lake

Plenty of open spaces

Playing with the grandchildren at Budgewoi

Port Macquarie NSW - Koalas at the campsite

We were setting up our awning when this koala ambled past us and went up a tree

 

I felt a bit guilty as a 'blow in' winning  the fruit and veggie tray raffle at the local club

Port Macquarie NSW - a dog-friendly beach and man-friendly dog owner...

Roy took puppy to dog-friendly Nobby's Beach so he could meet some new little friends

Roy's new little friend - a man-friendly lady dog owner

"Newbie is a chick magnet", he says, but the new friend never even asked our puppy's name

"Puppy's making lots of new friends," Roy said. So was Roy.

At Wooli, Solitary Islands Resort, far north coast NSW

A resort with pretty much everything and it costs almost nothing.

We needed a break from all the holidaying.
So here we are enjoying a fortnight at Solitary Islands Resort at Wooli.
The resort is running an amazing offer.
Pay for one week for a powered site and the second week is free.
They even deliver your groceries.
By the end of the period we may have worked up enough energy for more holidaying.

Panning for gold in Nundle NSW

Some golden memories

Following the fossicking route next.

Nundle, goldtown NSW, and a gold nugget of a story about a famous Australian air disaster

Sad and oddly elegant memorial to an air disaster

The late air hostess

"Lutana"

Square Peak

Wristwatches found on crash victims showed that Lutana struck the peak at 8.15 p.m. Time, and life, stopped.

Lutana fused by heat to the rock

The aircraft's coffee urn

Recently, a 91-year old woman turned up in the tiny gold and wool town of Nundle NSW and said: "I was the air-hostess on board the DC-3 that crashed on Nundle's Square Peak, killing all on board."
Sounds like a good ghost story, we thought, as the town's information officer went on relating the story to us.
"The lady came in here and said that on the day of the fateful crash in 1948, the rostered hostess failed to turn up for duty at Brisbane airport and so she was asked to take her place on the flight to Sydney.
"The engines were already thrumming for takeoff when a car beetled over the strip. It was the rostered hostess and so we changed places at the very last moment. I shouldn't be alive," she said.

It wasn't a ghost story, but it sent a tingle through us all the same. 

Another yarn - Nundle Woollen Mill

Nundle's Mount Misery Gold Mine

Mudgee - a vineyard find and a lost railway

Never mind an Australian high-speed supertrain - just any train would be good here

Grand abandon

What a find - a famed white port you serve chilled

Pieter van Gent Winery  - well worth a visit and a tasting