Day 5, 6 and 7

Okay no pics this time... no USB.

The last few days have been a whirlwind and a blast!

Day 5
-Got up and decided to go to the famous Bondi Beach. It was my (Jesse's) first attempt at driving here. Went pretty well, but takes some getting used to. The beach was great, HUGE! It was still a little chilly but Ed and I decided to tough it out and hit the water anyway. It was freaking COLD! But fun, the waves were rolling in pretty good and we got beat up a bit. Kelly and Rhonda relaxed in the sun and Kelly decided to take a run.
-Then we drove back, had a little clean up and walked down to Liverpool Street for a bite to eat (really good pizza meal) and then it was off to the Opera! The Opera house is even more amazing at night! It was busy walking down there because they were kicking off World Youth Day in Darling Harbour and there was around 200,000 people down there. The performance was amazing. What a great show, and because it was a Musical not and Opera and in English, we all understood it. The actual theater was great, but Kelly and I both expected it to be slightly bigger, never the less and great experience!

Day 6
-We got up and let our apartment in Sydney to head north. We jumped in the mini van and headed to Newcastle. On the way we made a detour out the the hunter valley (wine country) to do a little wine and cheese tasting. We actually drove by the Lindmens Estate vineyard which was really cool. We stopped at McGuire's and sampled cheese and then I did a wine tasting. Very nice, then it was back on the road to Newcastle. We stopped for dinner and headed to Port Stephens. Port Stephens was beautiful; however, our hostel was a little on the "rickety" side. It was out in the forest, not a whole lot of heat, and you had to go out of the room to get to the bathroom. It was weird, lots of animal noises, none of us got a whole lot of sleep.

Today (Day 7)
-What a cool start to the day. The nice lady at the hostel told us of a few places to check out one being boat harbour (on Anna Bay)may be able to see some whales, and DID WE! They were jumping right out of the water just off the shore. It was really surreal. Got lots of pics.
-Then we drove to the Sand Dunes. They stretched forever! This is where we all took CAMEL RIDES! It was really fun and we all had a blast! First time for all of us.
-Then is was into the Van and started to drive north again, which brings us to now.

We're in Coffs Harbour. It's a really neat hostel. We made supper in the community kitchen and now were headed to bed. Not sure what's planned for tomorrow, but should be pretty fun!

Hope you're all doing well, we'll post pics when we can.

Cheers from down under!
Jesse, Kelly, Rhonda and Ed.

and yes we did see wombats! They're very cute and about the size of a pot belly pig.