The alarm woke us up at about 7.45am this morning, because we had to head to the bus-station to catch our Greyhound Bus. Yesterday we'd booked ourselves tickets to take us about 4 hours up the coast to a place called Port Macquarie.
Our time on the bus wasn't too bad! It was quite a new bus and they put films on for us (which Nikki slept through), plus they stopped a couple of times - so it seemed like we were there in no time. When we were unloading our bags, two men spotted we were travelers and asked if we had anywhere to stay tonight? When we told them no, they started competing with each other - telling us what their hostel offered. In the end we settled for the one that had free internet, free breakfast, free tea and coffee and free shuttles to the bus depot - Port Macquarie Backpackers.
Keith, the guy from the hostel, was really nice and on the way back he showed us around town - telling us things we could do. When we got back he said that they had a couple of bikes for hire at $5 each, but if we just wanted to go into town we could have them for nothing. He also explained about what wildlife we could see in the area - so we dumped our bags and headed out.
When we got to the centre, we were taking a walk in the sunshine along the river, when dolphins started swimming past - there were about 5 of them! Apparently, if you hire kayaks and paddle along the river - they sometimes come and swim next to you - so we might do that tomorrow! After a couple of hours, we came back to the hostel and Nikki cooked us some pasta bolognese for tea before we sat down with some other guy from the hostel and watched a film.
The thermometer said it was 21° today, but we're not so sure - i'll wear my shorts tomorrow to make a better judgement... yippee!
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