"I want to go to Booti Booti Park!"

Buladelah to Forester-Tuncurry. It's not pronounced like Subaru Forester, although we liked to say it that way. Subaru Forester-Tuncurry. It was tough to top "the rock", Uluru, the roadside attraction version. Unlike the authentic version in the outback, the one we visited had a slide. And meat pies. (kangaroo). And a Hungry Jacks, which is Australian for Burger King.

But nonetheless, we topped "the rock" experience first thing the next morning. We managed to see the largest (known) tree in (Northern) New South Wales. As Nicole and Boppa both have Welch roots, we were looking at this whole mission as sort of a heritage tour. Amazing that their ancestors were running around under huge trees like this one. Amazingly, we had the site to ourselves. Unsurprisingly, it's kind of hard to capture the largeness of the tree with a digi cam.



Onward... Booti Booti park beckons! But first, a stop at Seal Rocks Beach and the most amazing light house location ever. Again, it features a vista so huge that it's hard to capture on film, but you can kind of get a sense of things. Auntie Nicole taking action photos of Boodah chasing pelicans at Seal Rocks Beach.




The light house and the light house family picnic. You can stay at the old light house keepers cottage for about $250/night Australian. During peak season, you have to rent it for a week, but what a spectacular week that would be! If I were a rich celebrity wanting to get away from it all, I'd rent this place for a week. There is the light house keepers cottage and the assistant light house keeper's cottage.

The signs were fairly clear. Here's another one we enjoyed. I made Boppa read this one twice:

And another of our favorites. This is a marketing campaign that probably wouldn't go too far in the States. Most parts of the States, anyway.

Finally, Booti Booti! Mister passionately wanted to go to Booti Booti Park. He had a small sleepy tantrum about it. He must have heard us say the name as we were looking over the map. "I waaant to go to BOOOTI BOOOOTI PA A A A ARK. I waaant to go to BOOOTI BOOOOTI PA A A A ARK." You get the idea. Sadly for Boodah, he was sleeping by the time we got there. It is a pretty amazing place. But it's almost more fun just to say aloud. Looking north.



Looking south.


Out to sea. That is some seriously pounding surf.






Sunset at the Subaru Forester Tuncurry caravan park: