Road to Gold Coast Part 3 - Coffs Harbour

Coffs Harbour doesn't have an apostrophe which always throws me off the loop. The big pull of the town is The Big Banana. Look it up. I don't understand it either. I am not even sure if the Banana really has a big pull. We arrived there off summer season so there weren't many people there anyway. There had all kinds of banana themed souvenirs, also banana shakes, crepes, smoothies, dried bananas, fresh bananas, bananas, bananas, bananas. Diana tried eating honeycomb for the first time in her life. I know, it's totally unrelated but it happened. They also had different rides, a water slide and an ice-skating hall. Diana wanted us to go ice-skating and I resisted at first. When I eventually conceded a couple of hours later, it was closed, although it said in big letters that they are open all day long.

The big thing of the day was our walk on Muttonbird Island.

The view from the island.

It's weird how it is difficult to write about the most beautiful spots. We climbed to the top accompanied by a family and some other people, enjoyed the view but the best thing was when we went on down to the other side, had some alone time and there was nothing going on except from everything being laid out around us, the gras swinging beside our feet and the feel and sound of the wind. It's when nothing happens that everything in the background comes to the forefront of our senses. It was good.

Other than that, Coffs Harbour in true Australian fashion had a street with a row of very nice restaurants that even in a small town rivals what you will find in the whole of Stuttgart that has ten times as many residents. On our first night there, we had a Vietnamese meal. The town also had this.

Guess what!

Stepping through the entry was like stepping through a dimension gate that transported us back to Germany. Everything was identical from the size to the layout, to the placement and type of the offers there.

On our last day at Coffs Harbour we did two earth-shattering things. I went to the electronics store and brought back the blender we bought in Sydney because it was too big to transport. With part of the money I bought Luigi's Mansion 2 which I was looking for for the last couple of months.

Our plan was for our next destination to be Byron Bay but it was extremely difficult to find somewhere to spend the night there for an affordable price. So we just made a stop there. The place was the most vacation-y we have seen in Australia yet but in a nice way. Also, Diana found her new favourite beach.

Diana's new favourite beach.

We came, we saw the beach, we ate a burger, we left.