Sydney to Brisbane Road Trip: Port Stephens

From Katoomba we headed towards the coast so we could join the Pacific Coast Highway, that runs right along the East Coast. Our destination for the day was Anna Bay, Port Stephens. We'd all heard it was a beautiful area to visit, with sand dunes, dolphins and amazing beaches. But more importantly there is a free camp site at One Mile Beach, Anna Bay. On our road map, it looked like we would have a short journey, but it actually took a long time. We seem to drive through a forest for about three hours. By the time we made it to One Mile Beach we were all pretty exhausted.
We set up camp, and took a look around. This is what we saw.


One Mile Beach

We also discovered the camp site had a resident Koala, well at least that week it did. Paul christened the Koala Eric, I'm not sure why. Eric didn't move a whole lot, like all Koalas he was doped up on eucalyptus. However at night he made his presence known. Surprisingly Koala's make noises like wild pigs and are incredibly loud.

Eric.

We also discovered we had camped by many ant nests, the Australian ants are huge.


Giant Ant Carries Peanut!

We spent two nights at One Mile Beach, it was such a lovely spot and we had great weather too. Jelmer did some surfing and Paul and Gary went for a couple of runs along the beach. When they reached the nudist part of the beach they removed an item of clothing as a show of support.

Jelmer, Paul and Gary at Anna Bay camp site.