Coffs Harbour

We got a lift to Coffs Harbour with a Craig, nice bloke, he wanted a bit of company on his journey to Byron Bay. We thought great, we'll arrive at lunchtime, instead of teatime and we'll be able to do more stuff.

It started raining as soon as we arrived and didn't really stop until the day before we were due to leave.

The hostel was really friendly and had the warmest log fire in the evening, I sat next to that every night. Our first night was amusing as this odd aussie guy ran around the hostel asking everyone if they had his weed (it had been stolen), he then did alot of moaning to anyone who'd listen about how unsympathetic his dealer had been to his situation and how he'd been ripped off again. I had a snigger at that little gem, who's heard of a sympathetic drug dealer!

We spent a day at the Pet Porpoise Pool, which rescues and rehabilitates dolphins, seals and sealions. We got to touch and play with the dolphins which was awesome, they feel a bit rubbery. They also put on a show for us, showing us what they could do such as tail walking.

We enquired about doing our PADI diving certificate as it was a fairly cheap place to do it, we were also hoping to do some diving on the Great Barrier Reef. However, due to our respective medical conditions we are not allowed to dive at the moment.

On our last day we took a walk up to Mutton Bird Island, the views were amazing. We couldn't really see any whales as they were swimming too far out.