New South Wales
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Chapter 8 : Bondi Beach –
When we arrived at the Bondi Beach house Backpackers YHA – Hostel, we realized we were staying closer to Tamarama Beach. While it was still a pretty nice beach, it wasn’t as close to the party central, Bondi Beach, that we were expecting. The hostel was located in a residential area with limited parking and…
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Chapter 7 : Bouddi National Park
We were awaken once again by the calls exotic birds. At around 7am, I peeked in the patio above the car port to see if our host was out hand feeding the parrots and macaws, but unfortunately they weren’t out that morning. I went back into the apartment and made sure that we were packed…
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Chapter 6 : Woy Woy –
About 10 minutes north of Hardy’s Bay is the city of Woy Woy. With a population a little over 10,000 people, it is seemed like one of the biggest cities in the Central Coast outside of the metropolitan Sydney area. There wasn’t any cities close to Hardy’s Bay that had a Target or KMart, so…
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Chapter 5 : Bouddi Beach Coastal Run –
Throughout the night, the sounds of cicadas and other insects lurking in the coastal forest made way for the calls of tropical birds, like parrots and macaws. It was still dark in the bedroom, but with our window open, we were easily awakened by the birds beyond the screen. Although it was around 5:30am in…
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Chapter 4 : Hardy’s Bay to Killcare –
I managed to adjust to the time and woke up at 5:30am. You could hear 100’s of birds out the window calling out to each other like a symphony. Looking off the patio from the apartment you can see the sailboats floating in the bay and a bridge in the distance, with mountains in the…
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Chapter 3 : Arriving in Sydney
We arrived in Sydney at around 11:30am local time. Along with the 4 and a half hour flight that we took from Fiji, we had crossed 4 times zones, so we were flying in sort of real time. Once we arrived at the airport our gate lead us right into a concourse with restrooms to…