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29/11/2004: "Last Frontiers........near Point Plummer NSW"

I drove north of Port Macquarie, crossed the river on an old-style 'punt' and headed toward Crescent Head on a coast 'road' - at present a dusty, pot-holed torture for any 4x4. Signs advise the road is unsuitable for speeds above 60 kph - a very optermistic statement. Maybe it will get graded in time for for the Christmas holidays?

The bad track in keeps visitor numbers down. Surfers and rock-hopping snorkellers brave the harsh conditions and discover one of the last, unspoiled, undeveloped pieces of territory on the mid-north coast.

Learn-to-Surf camping tours leave Kings Cross in Sydney each week for a five day bus tour ending Friday night at trendy and now over-priced youth destination, Byron Bay.

The first three days camped near this beach is probably the surf tour highpoint, plus a visit to "Legends Surf (and now shark) Museum" 7km north of Coffs Harbour, just off the Pacific Highway.