Great Places To Visit.

Such a pretty area, it's hard to pick a favorite spot. We have based ourselves at Shoalhaven Heads in the Mountain View Resort.  Good spot. We have done a day trip up to Fitzroy Falls (Moss Vale Rd, towards Moss Vale) and through Kangaroo Valley. Back to Kangaroo Valley for lunch, then across to Berry and back to the air-con in the caravan. Such a pretty drive through the mountains. Kangaroo Valley is stunning. Green on green, and then greener. Lunch at the Kangaroo Valley Hotel was lovely. We enjoyed a leisurely stroll down the main street popping into some of the local shops. The wood crafters shop with rocking horses out the front got out attention as we love all things timber. The lolly shop was another we couldn't walk past and came out with delicious, cold ice creams in cones. We then enjoyed a scenic drive to Berry which was much larger than we expected, and tourists certainly know about this spot as it was teeming with people. We drove through but didn't st...

It's hard not to like Port Lincoln in South Australia. After all it's said to be the seafood capital of Australia, so if like us you like a bit of fresh fish, prawns, scallops, oysters or crayfish, you can find plenty of it here and more. Every cafe, restaurant, or pub you go into for a meal is guaranteed to have some seafood on the menu. Delicious! So far we have enjoyed a variety of fish cooked a variety of ways as well as prawns, calamari and scallops & oysters kilpatrick.  We were keen to try the crayfish also, but when we saw the price (AUS$150/kg) we decided we would stick to prawns!!! Crayfish are very popular and expensive I suppose because 95% of crays are exported to Asia!!! Anyway as we had crayfish for Christmas at our nephews (he shouted) we decided that would do us! The Esplanade is lovely here. Beach front, then grass beneath tall pine trees, then the main street and shops! What's not to like. Oh and the pier on the Esplanade has a designated swimmi...

The Coalmine Beach Caravan Park is nestled in the bush just out of Walpole. It's and idealic location with its lovely beach frontage for nature walks and easy driving to local attractions such as The Tall Trees  Walkway, Giant Tingle Tree, The Walpole-Nornalup Inlet for boaties who like fishing, and during Whale watching season you can watch the migration of whales on the South Coast.  The Walpole-Normalup National Park covers 18,000 hectares and basically encircles the town. With it's spectacular tall Kari trees it's beautiful just to drive through. We did the Hilltop Gully Rd to the Giant Tingle Tree (paved walking paths from the car park), then left onto Allen Rd, completing a circuit of beautiful forest driving on excellent well maintained dirt roads(suitable for any vehicle). The Giant Tingle Tree was as promised....GIANT. We went on over to Valley of the Giants in order to do the tree top walk - AMAZING!!!  The walk is suspended 40 metres into the forest canopy, w...