Coffs Harbor with details

Hiyas to everyone who's following us!!

We are currently in Coffs but here's a bit of a recap of the past few days...
We had an amazing visit w Uncle Brat and Auntie Sue in Taree / Old Bar after a long few days of driving almost non-stop.

Canberra to Umina was 7hrs, Umina to Taree was a little over 4 and leaving Taree today was a bit rough on us as we're all a bit over the car (or, cahhh).
Uncle Brat & Auntie Sue have done so much work on the farm and the house it was great to see it all come together...and the chickens/roosters/roos/kookaburras/fruit bats all made it that much more exciting!!  They have this amazing fig tree that is almost as wide as their house and attracts the most amazing birds day and night...coupled with the frogs chirping / thumping and then the fruit bats squawking and the stars blowing your mind with how bright they are...we were just gobsmacked taking it all in.

Our caravan was beautifully made up by Sue (who went flat out getting ready for the Braidwood invasion) and suited us perfectly.  Robb found a HUGE huntsman spider in it right as we arrived and was a bit twitchy the whole time ... but we managed :)  We took heaps of photos this morning before we left (yes, Mum, we got all four of us, the tree, the Jacaranda, the kids w Brat, etc -- your Xmas card will be fine)

Kirby The Dog was a huge success and Sam cried and wept as we pulled out the drive the last time, convinced that Kirby missed him as much as he missed Kirby...such a sweet boy.

Coffs is a cool little harbour town with a huge surfer scene...this is really where that culture starts to pick up and people from all over the world come to follow the waves ... "no way Bells is bigger than Waimea, bro!" ... we hiked up the big hill at the end of the harbour just as we did four years ago with Sam and he was a gem not falling and scraping his knees...Lu was a champ and marched up with no worries but started to run on the down and totally wiped out, scraping hands, knees, nose, etc...Coffs Harbour strikes again!!  Don't worry, we copied the photos from last time to well-document the scars along the way.

Tomorrow we'll be in Tugun, with Grannie, and finally able to unpack, unwind, and settle a bit for the "home" part of our trip.

Hope everyone's well and hope to hear from you all as we trek along through the MotherLand.
xoxo

NB. There is this crazy song on the radio right now -- Bom Bom Bom -- stupid song but catchy and EVERYWHERE!!!!