Coff's Harbour

A short stay here, just four days.  We stayed in The Terraces, a Wyndam Hotel just 5 minutes north of Coff's Harbour township. With a population of 75,000, it compares with New Zealand's Whangerei which has a population of about 51,000.

Impressions: a seaside resort town with the main Pacific highway running through it. Usual cafes and restaurants, with a nice central shops area.

View from the terrace at the Hotel:

 

 A Bush Turkey at the Hotel:

Off our terrace saw Black and White Crows, who were eating the berries off the palm trees:

 

 From the Hotel, you can walk a cliff path to the next beach, which is Digger's beach. This is looking back northwards on the way to Digger's Beach:

The waterfront area is extensive with a good beach.  Australian sandy beaches are better than in NZ, nicer colour.

This is Digger's Beach  which is nearby:

This is a small town close by, called Urunga:

What to do? Not much, one day took a trip to Dorrigo, a small town about 1 hour inland.  You set out on fairly flat farmland, and end up climbing into a sizeable mountain ranges.

 On the way there you go through Bellingen, another small town, very old:

Up there is a National Park with a bush walk, where we tried to make it to the waterfalls, but ran out of steam.

This is a view from the bush walk at Dorrigo:

This is a waterfall, just out of Dorrigo: