SINKS MUMMY: The last part of our holiday

It was Sunday and the weather was sunny but it was still blowing a gale. At breakfast, the owner of the motel came to our table and said he was doing a radio spot on the local radio. He said he'd "better mention the family". We thought he meant his family but then he asked us exactly who we were and where we were from. We tuned in as we sat in the car waiting for church and sure enough he greeted us.

We met some really great Christian people at the local church. That afternoon we decided to explore Wentworth Falls. The walk to the lookout was fairly short but we found that in the gale the falls were not falling but going up:

You can't see it from the picture but there's a walkway across the top of the falls so after quite a long hike we got there. A couple of times I had to hold onto Matt so he didn't fall down the steep cliff on one side. It was a little wet on the walkway with the wind blowing the water onto us:

Very pretty! The next day we packed up and headed back to Port Macquarie. This time Hubby drove and I had the map (no glasses needed) and we discovered the detailed map of Sydney on the other side. We avoided the toll roads and found our way out without any hassle so made good time to Port Macquarie. Once there we went to pay the motel owner who said we could have a big discount because we'd left the place so clean when we were there a week ago.

It was still in the afternoon so we went exploring. There's an old lighthouse there and we took this great view of the beach from the lighthouse (the lighthouse pics had Q family in there):

We also found some historic graves. In Australia the first European settlement was in 1788 in Sydney so to find graves dated 1822 and 1823 is not common. Port Macquarie was settled not too long after Sydney:

The next day we made good time getting home. My Mum had house sat for us saying that she'd have a nice holiday. When I got back she had cleaned the windows, vacuumed, mopped, cleaned the oven until it was sparkling and made ice-cream Christmas cake! I'm glad at least that I'd bought a present for her at the science shop.