Coffs Harbour Environment

The town of Coffs Harbour is located on a very attractive part of the NSW North Coast at a point where the mountains to the west reach to the sea in the form of rolling hills. Those westward mountains are, by the way, actually the highest point on the entire east coast between Mt Kosciusko near the Victorian  Border and the mountains to the Southwest of Cairns in North Queensland, a distance of about 2,750 km. And Point Lookout there is a little short of 1600 m (or about 5,200 feet). So Coffs has an impressive backdrop.

I took early morning walks from our resort and these first two images on the built-up fringe show the kind of scenery embracing the town.

Like many places, Coffs had its graffiti moments, this one under a road over-pass. I don't know what means, but the art-work was great ... not a spur of the moment vandalism.

To get a view over the town and coast we took a trip to the Sealy Lookout, winding through banana plantations for quite some distance. The lookout is constructed like a suspension bridge, except that it soon comes to an abrupt end as shown here. That's hardly surprising as it's built high on a hill that drops away steeply. Still, it seemed to support my weight!!

The views provided were spectacular. Eastwards lay the centre of the town and slightly to left hand side you might make out the harbour itself, full of fishing vessels and trophy yachts.

This picture shows the long and impressively sweeping Boambee beach behind which lay some settlements like Toormina and Sawtell, both of which we visited during our stay. The former had the shed with the bouncing facilities loved by Max and Campbell. And the latter offered an attractive coffee culture for we oldies!

This view to the south shows the hills descending eastwards from Point Lookout.

And here's a view over to where we staying at the Aqualuna resort. You might just make out one of the three uninhabited islands that dot this stretch of coast.

And of course nearly everyone who visits the Coffs Coast visits the Big Banana, I won't dwell on this the subject of an earlier post. However, I was taken by this welcoming creature ... what ever it's supposed to be! If you look closely at the badge you can see on its chest you'll realise that it's named after Max! Not that he was impressed. In fact, he and Campbell itched to go the impressive water park adjacent to the Banana for couple of hours getting soaked and going for wild steep rides.

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