The World From My Eyes

Day 8: Today was a traveling day. We didn’t have anything planned for the day, all we know we are stopping at Glenn Innes to spend the night as we booked an accommodation there last night. From Newcastle we took the New England Highway. We took a different route back to Brisbane, as we didn’t want to follow the same route hoping to experience and/or see something different to our way down to Sydney. Scenery along the New England Highway The parallel route to New England Highway is the Pacific Highway, which uses the coastal route. This route is the inner land route and usually less busy than the Pacific Highway. Even though it’s the inner land route, don’t dream of going above the speed limit as there’s static speed cameras along the route and mind you it will cost you AUD300 if you ever caught of speeding in Australia. We passed by a few towns along the route and for some towns, the highway passes through their town centre. The town centers were very small with single s...

Last weekend I went to another camping trip with my housemate and Malaysian friends. This was my first time on a real camping trip in Australia with tents, sleeping bags and all. This time, we started the journey on Friday afternoon. We thought that we can avoid the traffic but we were wrong and got stuck in it for 2 hours. After 6 hours of driving, we did manage to reach Coffs Harbour safely that night. The next morning we headed out to Waterfall Way. Our first stop was Never Never Creek in Bellingen. The water was crystal clear and the boys and Ami  even had a dip in the water which was icy cold. Actually the boys accidentally fell into the water and Ernest even took his wallet, hp and car keys with him into the water. The next stops were Dangar Falls in Dorrigo and Ebor Falls in Ebor. Out of the 2 falls, I prefer Ebor falls more. We had our lunch at Ebor Falls and head to Styx River to set up our camping ground for the night. We put our tents up and get the ...