Our aim was to try and get somewhere close to Forster which was 7 hours of driving. We were a little slow getting away (9.45am) but it was hard to get out from under the doona. Although it was still cold at least the sun was out. Before heading out of Canberra we thought we should at least take in the view of Canberra from the 195m Telstra Tower on Black Mountain. We had great 360 degree views from the viewing platform which is at 66m. Caitlin & Cooper both enjoyed taking photos and pointing out the different landmarks. After a fuel stop we headed out of the city but knew we were in for a bad day when 20 minutes down the road Cooper asked that question "Are we there yet?". Knowing he wasn't well and dosed up on Redipred we tried our best to appease him but he drove us all crazy. We stopped for lunch at a service centre around 1.30pm about 1 hour south of Sydney and were pleasantly surprised at the change in temperature - off with the thermals. We got through the outskirts of Sydney without any traffic dramas and continued north on the Pacific Highway. When we got to Bulahdelah we headed east out to the Myall Lakes District. It was dark by this stage and we were trying to find a particular campground listed in the Camps 6 book. We ended up at Camp Elim 11 km south of Forster. It was 7.00pm by this stage and the kids were exhausted. They both crawled into their sleeping bags and went to sleep. It had been a big day and were feeling like we were taking things a little fast and missing all these great spots along the way. We had made a commitment to be at the Gold Coast - having purchased passes for the theme parks last year which expired at the end of the month were keen to reuse them. In hindsight perhaps this wasn't such a good idea.
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