Kathrine Breivik

Yamba! Yamba! Yamba! This place might possibly become my favourite place in Australia. It is a small town which has everything to offer; 10 beaches, beautiful walking tracks, lovely town centre, the best prawns (still not as good as Norway), and some awesome blue and green pools (the Angourie pools) which are a few minutes drive outside the town centre.

When we arrived we attended Shane’s 10 bucks tour around Yamba, and it was awesome!! Shane who owns the YHA the only hostel in Yamba is a legend and had us entertained with some extreme activities, like feeding the pelicans.

We drove around and saw some of the beautiful beaches, and then he took us to the green and blue pools to do some cliff jumping. I was so proud as I dared to jump from 5 meters high!

John is a little braver than me and did a 10 meters jump!

The next day we went on a catamaran around the harbour of Yamba. We spotted some dolphins just next to the boat. We also stopped and jumped off the roof of the boat.

Yamba was definitely worth a visit, and is probably the place that I want to go back to visit! The best part is that not too many people know about this amazing little place.

We rented some bikes in Port Macquarie, and cycled to a Koala Hospital, where I saw koalas for the first time, funny and cute looking creatures.

There were a lot of birds at the hostel we stayed at, so we could hold the parrots and other birds whenever we liked.

The next day we rented some bikes again and cycled to the beach where we went for a camel ride!

It was really funny, and pretty cool as we had the ride along the beach looking out to the ocean. I have to admit I was a bit scared at times as I thought the camel behind me might bite me, however the owner said that: ‘they eat graass not aaaarrss’ haha.

After nearly 24 hours of travelling we arrived at Sydney. When we arrived at the hostel we met up with our lovely friend Blaine. We walked around Sydney all day, looking at the famous Sydney Opera house and Sydney Harbour Bridge. The walk to our hostel in Kings Cross was not too bad as we walked through the Royal Botanic Gardens. After a lovely lunch at the harbour we went shopping in the city centre, where we met up with Ellie and Ashleigh (two of my close friends from Derby). Can not tell you how nice it is to see them again.  

The next day we jumped on a ferry to Manly Beach, which is just 30 minutes away from Sydney.

It is a really nice place, very ‘surfy’ looking. Sadly we did not have the best weather so we could not chill on the beach for too long. But, Manly was definitely worth a day trip.

Sadly this was all we had time to do in Sydney, however we are going back in a few weeks time so the rest will have to wait until next time.