Wow what a day :). After a quick stop at the factory, we made it to the airport with time for lunch . We had a good flight and landed in Sydney onetime. A very short walk and we found the courtesy bus that took us to collect our hire car at East Coast Car rentals. I had booked a small 4cyl Nissan but we were up graded to a mid sized Suzuki Swift. :).
It was surprisingly easy to find our way out of the airport district and onto the road to Wollongong and then on to Berry.
We had planned on finding a supermarket and a quick look at the Woolworth’s app showed one at Engadine, just off the highway we were on, so we pulled it to do a quick shop of “necessities ” …..milk, bread, butter, eggs, some fresh meat and vege.
We had heard reports on the radio that there was very heavy traffic at Kiama. We thought we might have dodged it due to us being a bit later than peak hour, but alas it was not to be :(. We were stuck in an 8km traffic jam that added an extra hour to our trip. We arrived at our cottage in Berry at around 7:00. http://berry.org.au/shipton/
After unpacking, a thrown together dinner of lamb chops and vege and we are in bed early, looking forward to a relaxing holiday.
We have a relaxing break planned in Berry, NSW. We passed through Berry on our last road trip over the Christmas break.
We were impressed by this quaint little town and decided we would like to look around a bit further. There is lots to see around Berry. It is just inland of Shoalhaven and Kangaroo Valley is just to the west.
Learn more about this lovely little town here…..http://berry.org.au/
Throughout 2008 I have been doing a few trips to Yamba for work, so it was a good idea to spend Easter in this gorgeous seaside town and have a look around properly.
For this trip we had a large unit at The Cove Apartments and was a nice surprise to be able to take Mick’s parents away with us.
There was a lot of relaxing and doing”not much” on this break. We took the ferry across to Illuka nd had HUGE hamburgers for lunch.
Each morning we were able to feed the visiting lorikeets.
If you have not been to Yamba, do yourself a favour 🙂
For the Easter break in 2007 we chose to visit Mackay. We flew from Brisbane to Mackay – a short 90minute flight, then hired a car for the 4 days.
We had found Ocean Resort Village , a nice little resort with self contained apartments.
It turns out, there is a fair bit to see around Mackay. We took a short drive to Sarina to explore the “Sugar Shed” and learnt a lot about the growing of cane and processing sugar.
To the north of the city is the Mackay Harbour and stretches of wide beaches. From the top of Lamberts Lookout, we got a great view looking south down the beach.
Not far from our cabins was this cute park full of “story book” characters for kids to play in.
On another day we headed inland with the intention to see Finch Hatton Gorge. Unfortunately, the road into the gorge was unsealed dirt road, and not suitable for the small 4cyl hire car we had. Further up the road at the top of the ridge was the historic Eungella Chalet Hotel.
This ridge is also where daredevils with hang gliders throw themselves off the mountain and fly.
Back at the cabins, we were entertained each night by the local possum. We even went shopping especially for fruit to feed him.
We had a lovely 4 days away and really enjoyed Mackay and its surrounds.
