Port Stephens and Bay’s Holiday Park Australia
Where we stayed: Bay’s Holiday Park
Port Stephen’s and Anna Bay is such a great little find!
Thank goodness I didn’t lose the Family Holiday Park booklet I got back in NZ, I haven’t seen one since.
We still haven’t found a great web-sight or app that will show us all the parks in the area so we’re left guessing or just driving and hoping for the best.
We booked two nights originally and we added another two because it is so peaceful and now we’re looking to change plans again.
5 reasons we love Bay’s Holiday Park in Port Stephen’s
- Free, great internet
- large covered porch
- play area for the kids just in the back yard,
- great pool
- We feel like we could move in.
Did I mention that they even have outdoor bowling and a large ring toss we all enjoyed together.
Cabin 3 is best with kids.
Bay Holiday Park is situated right in the middle of all the towns and is a 5 minute drive to any of the beaches and shopping. Despite what they advertise, I didn’t see any Koala’s in the trees though.
Layla has been the best these last 3 days. We even went shopping for a new swim suit last night and for the first time in a long time I could see the woman she’s going to become.
It’s poring now but the large porch allows me to stay outside and dry.
Stephen finally was able to buy a surf board and has surfed all three days. It was quite a challenge fixing it on top of our rental car but I think we’ve got it now without buzzing down the freeway.
Oh I don’t want to go and I want someone else to plan this trip for us.
I told Layla last night I feel like we don’t spend time together like we should. All our energy is put into where we are going next and what we’re going to do for the day.
Hopefully we’ll figure it out in the next 2 days.
Both Stephen and I were able to take turns driving into Nelson’s Bay to watch The Hunger Games. It felt nice to do something “normal.”
This whole area is so beautiful and divided up around a few different towns.
Port Stephen’s is not the town itself but is made up of Salamander Bay, Anna’s Bay, Nelson’s Bay, Shoals Bay, and a few others.
Surfing beaches that Stephen liked were One Mile beach and Booi Booi as well as Stockton Beach. We skipped the Camel rides and the sand dune sleds but did make it to the beach with the kids.
They enjoyed climbing over the rocks and then exploring the tide pools at low tide.
I finally picked up some cheap boogie boards at Kmart last night so hopefully the rain will stop and we’ll be able to use them at our next stop.
Jump into the Gap
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" - Henry David Thoreau
