Wade and Sarah's Aussie Adventure: What's the colour of a two cent piece??? Cop, cop, copper!

Bloody typical. All I did was break one little mirror while packing on Wednesday and the next thing you know a Highway Patrol arsehole gets me on day one of our five month holiday! I spent the entire trip from Pennant Hills to Newcastle in the far left lane of the freeway just trying to keep up with the truckies and then the minute Monty was on a roll, they dropped the bloody speed limit. I still swear it had nothing to do with my driving though; it was entirely the mirrors fault!

As much as Wade wanted to include a photo in this post of me holding my fine like a Uni student on graduation day, I said no. Now don’t kid yourselves, that didn't stop him trying, but lucky for me, the camera battery was flat so I was saved.

So that was lesson number one of the trip – don’t speed. Let’s hope we don’t learn any lessons about crocs the hard way too (joking Mum, I’ll still send Wade in first to test the croc infested waters)!

Other than the excitement of the expensive little slip of paper, the trip has been pretty relaxing and cruisy so far. We’re in Sawtell staying with Wade’s oldies and settling Rusty into his new home. He hasn’t peed on any curtains or carpet yet and either has Rusty so I’d say we’re doing well.

We visited Dorrigo National Park yesterday and went for a bit of a hike to see these two waterfalls that are supposed to be pretty awesome. Much to Wade’s delight, we discovered halfway through our 6km walk that the final leg of the walk had been hit by a landslide a few weeks ago, so rather than doing a complete loop, we had to turn around and walk back right when we were almost at the end! Funny at the time... not so funny now that our calves are still burning!

This morning Wade was told about a national park with some cool 4wd tracks just west of Coffs, so we went to check it out this arvo. The place is called Bindarri National Park and it's about half an hour along some beautiful country roads from Coffs. It turned out to be well worth the trip with some easy but fun 4wding, a great waterfall and awesome views from the top of the mountain.

Finally had a chance to get the camera out so I’ve posted the first batch of photos. Hope you enjoy them cause this is only the start!