Coffs Harbour - Day 4

Here we are at day four and today sees us travelling up the mountain and heading to Dorrigo National Park.

What a view from up there !! Again lots of pics so be warned !!

It was a fantastic view but quite breezy
so poor E was really, really cold !!

The next picture was taken from a pedestal that is set up for people to screw their own camera to with instructions about how to take a picture of yourself. I thought this was a great idea for those that travel on their own. There is no need to find or ask someone to take a picture. There should be more of these at popular tourist places.

Off for a bushwalk after visiting the main lookout. 
About 10 minutes into the walk a couple came by and told us
to look out for the leeches !! Yippee, watch out kids !!

The kids found this plant and decided that they
were pixie steps for the fairies !!
How Cute !!

The view from the other end of the walk.
The walk is about 20 minutes long along a paved pathway.

At the other end there is a great BBQ area with a large grassed area and this beautiful lookout. We decided to take a rest and take a good look at our shoes and legs as we had picked up a few leeches along the way. E had one on her shoe and then C took off her shoe. Pictures follow .......

E's leech, not bad !!

This is what we found when C took off her shoe !!!
EEEEWWWWW!!!!
Lucky it did not get through the sock.

After our adventure through the rainforest we decided that our best bet was to take the road back to the info centre. Less chance of leeches !!!!

Our next stop was Dangar Falls. A beautiful little stop along the road. I think this had to be one of my absolute favourite parts of the trip. It had a great little park with only 3 things !!!

Dangar Falls

The next lot of pics are from our adventure at the park with only 3 items. It had a swing, a small slide with monkeybars and a good old merry go round. This piece of equipment is a dying breed in todays society which is a shame but it was such a huge hit with the kids and us alike. All up I eneded up taking 36 pictures but I wont bore you with them all !!!

All my KIDS on the merry go round.

This swing was awesome, again something that I have not seen before.

Yeah loving this !!!!

Yeah maybe not !!!! Stop the world spinning PLEASE !!!!

Ha Ha Ha mum, I'm gonna spin you faster !!!

Sandy doing his superman impression.
Yahooooooo !!!

My little monkey just hanging around !!

Love this pic. C loved just gliding back and forth.

Thanks Dangar Falls for such a fantastic park.
We really had to drag ourselves away from this great place.

After nearly an hour of play and laughter we headed back down the mountain and found the Honey House. There was not to much to see here but the kids did like looking at the bees working away in the hive and they also go to taste fresh honey. Not something that they will be hurrying back for !!!

My busy buzzy bees !!!

The real busy buzzy bees.

 After the Honey House we took a drive through Sawtell, saw Coffs Harbour airport then headed home for a game of Tennis !!! The property also had a tennis court and the kids had been at me since day one to try it out. I was hesitant as I am no great tennis player and I am lucky if I can see the ball !!! Plus there were windows and cars around and I just had visions of the kids hitting the ball way off course !!! I didn't have to worry cause they couldn't hit the ball either, but there was alot of laughter just trying !!

E certaintly has the right look.

Finally after tennis we all sat down and had a good rest and then started gearing up for the next day where we are off to the Butterfly House. E is really looking forward to this one as she has a pet butterfly called Rosie. Rosie is any white butterfly that happens to fly past !!! So E was excited about going to meet Rosie's family that all live at the Butterfly House !!! Again there will be heaps of pics.!