My Australian Adventure ~~

Finally it's here...

Everyone is looking forward to this trip ever since we did the airline booking months ago.. I did not have time to google the places until yesterday, and with help of few friends - William, Ai Ling and Farahani.. I've finally listed our MUST GO list. But depending on the weather, we hope that everything will go smooth.

Last weekend I went to the Matta Fair to do some survey and booked AVIS car rental at 30% discount. OK so here goes our MUST GO list (not limited to). Of course, the usual Sydney-must-go :

[NOTE : All info and picture are source from Google. Not mine (YET!!)]

Sydney Opera House

Sydney Royal Easter Show - Lucky us.. it starts today!!

Sydney Olympic Park

Hard Rock Café

Now the real adventure, we start from the North of Sydney :

1) Port stephens - very nice beach. can see dolphins etc. Haven't survey the packages (yet). This place is really high up north. I don't know whether the kids can stand the travelling.. Bit not as north as Gold Coast :)

Amazing view of Port Stephens

2) Stockton Beach - located north of the Hunter River in New South Wales, Australia. It is 32 km (20 mi) long and stretches from Stockton, to Anna Bay. Over many years Stockton Beach has been the site of numerous shipwrecks and aircraft crash sites. In World War II it was fortified against a possible attack by Imperial Japanese forces.^[1] During that time it served as a bombing and gunnery range as well as a dumping area for unused bombs by aircraft returning from training sorties.^[2] The length of the beach, its generally hard surface and numerous items of interest along the beach make it popular with four-wheel drive (4WD) enthusiasts. Four-wheel drive vehicles are permitted to drive on Stockton Beach provided the vehicles are in possession of valid permits.

Ship Wrecks at Stockton Beach - the largest Sand dunes (hill of sand)

3) The Entrance - The Entrance is a district centre and town of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Wyong Shire local government area.

Pelican feeding at The Entrance

4) Barrenjoey - Barrenjoey is a locality in the suburb of Palm Beach, at the most northern tip of Pittwater. The headland is mostly made up of Hawkesbury sandstone which overlays Narrabeen shale. Around 10,000 years ago the headland was cut off from the mainland due to the rising sea level; subsequent buildup of a sand spit or tombolo reconnected the island to the mainland (a 'tied island'). It is the location of Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse, a lighthouse that was first lit in 1881.

Barrenjoey Headland and Station Beach viewed from West Head

5) Wildlife parks - The are plenty of wildlife parks in Sydney. Featherdale is one of them,. We will decide when we arrive :)

Kangaroo feeding

Patting the Koala

The Featherdale farm

6) Kiama blowhole - The Kiama Blowhole is a blowhole in the town of Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. It is the town's major tourist attraction. Under certain sea conditions, the blowhole can spray water up to 25 metres (82 ft) in the air, in quantities that thoroughly drench any bystanders. There is actually a second, less famous blowhole in Kiama, commonly referred to as the "Little Blowhole" by locals. It is much smaller than the other (called the "Big Blowhole"), but due to its narrow shape, it is actually more reliable than the Big Blowhole, and in the right conditions can be equally spectacular.

The Kiama blowhole

7) Morton National Park - The are so much nature to see in Morton National Park. Magnificent waterfalls, parks etc.. One of it is the Fitzroy Falls - is a locality in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. It was previously known as Yarrunga but was renamed after the 81-metre waterfall located there. At the 2006 census, Fitzroy Falls had a population of 688 people.

Belmore falls

Fitzroy falls

 8) Jervis Bay - The Jervis Bay Territory (pronounced: Jar-vis^[1]) is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. It was surrendered by the state of New South Wales to the Commonwealth Government in 1915^[2][3] so that the Federal capital at Canberra would have "access to the sea".

Dolphin watching at Jervis Bay

The Jervis Bay

Whale watching at Jervis Bay is only in winter (i.e. May - Nov) .. awwww :(