Our last day, and we headed to Urunga lagoon which has a long boardwalk from the mainland, across the lagoon, to a beautiful beach with sand dunes. The kids enjoyed the few access points from the boardwalk where they saw hermit crabs, soldier crabs, red crabs and various fish up close, and of course they […]
Archive for October, 2014
One night, as the kids had napped during the day, we decided to visit the beach at night with our head lamps and glow sticks and run around a bit. To our surprise we discovered these rather large white crabs that Mike later confirmed were ghost crabs. Their bodies were as big as my palm! […]
We had another gorgeous sunny day so we headed north for a 10 minutes drive to Monee Beach where we saw another beautiful estuary! Mike and I actually had some relaxing time lounging on the sand, reading our books while the kids explored the shallow waters. Now that Ethan can swim, and we could see […]
The next day we headed out to the Dorrigo rainforest, which was about an hour drive away. Ethan crashed out on the way, which was good as we spent all exploring the park, which included a 6.6km hike!! Both boys walked the entire way! What a gorgeous spot! We saw tiny scrubwren birds that have […]