Coffs Harbour

We found a lovely free camp called ‘Roses Park’ in Thora on the banks of the Bellingen River. It has lots of room, a flushing toilet and a General Store in walking distance. Thora seems to be made up of beef farms and orchards, so the landscape feels very familiar. We have travelled the road between Bellingen and Thora several times now and it is a very pretty drive.


We took the Pacific Hwy to Coffs Harbour this morning and started, naturally, at ‘The Big Banana’…



We drove down to the marina where we saw lots of commercial fishing boats. There was also a ‘Fisherman’s Co-op’ that sold many yummy looking goodies. I took a photo of the tuna especially for my friends Lisa and Mark, who used to buy tuna steaks regularly in England – as soon as I saw these I thought of them! Coffs Harbour reminded me a bit of Fremantle, but with Fremantle hosting the 1987 America’s Cup there was a lot of tourist-friendly infrastructure put in place. I didn’t find it so easy to navigate around the spread out town of Coffs Harbour with no real town centre that I could find. It was great to visit though!




As you can see, the weather was a bit overcast, but was still warm and only rained when we were in the car (how lucky was that?!).




Beside the marina was a delicious looking homemade icecream shop. The cones were waffle cones dipped in chocolate and then in 100s and 1000s or nuts. You could then have your icecream dipped in sherbert, nuts or chocolate, and then if you still need more you can add on a Mint Slice or Tim Tam biscuit.


The icecream was very pricey so we didn’t indulge, but it sure looked delicious!
We walked around the marina and saw lots of boats.

We searched for a good spot to eat our lunch at and were rewarded by finding this awesome playground. It had a few things we hadn’t seen before as well as some great swings like the ones we found at ‘Kids Town’ near Shepparton.

Trevor cooked a delicious dinner of bbq-ed chicken, homemade bbq-ed wedges and lots of veges. Yum!!