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Wednesday, 31.10.12 - After an almost 'magic' night with a full moon rising over the mountains and the right song on the radio [Flight Facilities/Clair de Lune (!)] we are wakened by magpies and the sun, it's about 7am and before breakfast I HAVE to go and take some pictures. What a weather! What a silence! What a landscape! We do like the inhabitants, enjoy the moment and take our time.
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Next stop: Another nationalpark about 20 km away. We may (but don't have to) pay AUD 2,- (or more) admission and are able to see this unbelievable rainforest. At about 9am we are the first visitors: The admission-box is empty and in the touristshop they make their plans for the upcoming day. It's pleasoantly warm and with our obligatory bottle of water and our hats [you'll never know what's coming from above] - we start into the green.
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Aussies are really great in constructing parks: You have walkable (or even drivable) paths, lots of information signs, everything is neat, no trash flying around and all this for little money (if any).
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After the first 1,5 hours we have passed half the way of the circular track. We stand in front of a WATERFALL! Crystal Shower it's called and that's how it looks (even if we didn't check the temperature).
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3 hours later it gets fuller and considerably warmer. We see strange birds, hear weird sounds, look at amazing vegetation and even meet a snake (I don't know who's more afraid...) and then go back to the entrance and take a seat in the shadow. Just sat down a very friendly waitress offers a jug of ice-cold water. For free. That is service, isn't it? We take a tasty clubsandwich and a real italian coffee and restored we go off towards the coast [muuuuuuuch pictures in the gallery].
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The landscape gets much greener, seems they have more water here. At one of the numerous road works we get a pace-car-service! Instead of traffic lights there is a yellow blinking car that every few minutes takes some cars through the road works. First one direction than the other. So this is an alternative too ...
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We drive through mountains, along huge rangelands, small towns and rivers. And suddenly we see the ocean ... I mean, we knew that we drove towards it but we didn't reckon it would be that
fast.
At Sawtell we find a campsite (which we were searching for a long time - don't know why, it's a big one you actually cannot miss) and hurry up to get into the water. As we don't know if there is
shark-season we only put our feet into the sea or rather get into it until the belly and stay at the shore.
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WHAT A DAY!
In the morning silence and a green, almost sticky rainforest, in the evening the oceans's swoosh and a pleasant fresh breeze. Awesome!