After a 600km drive we arrived at Sawtell. The campsite was a bit squeezy, but we were right next to the beach and the sunset was beautiful. We went for a quick explore before dinner.

Unfortunately, not long after these photos Mac fell off the log and landed on his left arm. He’s a pretty tough kid and not much phases him, but he was VERY sad. He wanted to go straight to bed and not even eat dinner. We had a very restless night, and even after giving him some analgesic he still didn’t sleep much.

We had planned to go to a butterfly house and dinosaur park in the morning, so we got up in the morning and made our way there. The butterfly section was a little disappointing, but the dinosaurs were great. Mac, who is pretty dino-obsessed was not interested at all – just miserable really.

I was hoping his sore arm was nothing serious, but my gut feeling was we needed to get it checked out. So we spent the next few hours at the Coffs Harbour emergency department.

Everyone at the hospital was amazing. We were seen to so quickly, Mac had some X-rays taken (which was really painful for him and I felt terrible) and then the disappointing news came – he has a fractured elbow, requiring a cast for 3 weeks.

Not the best news when you still have 3 weeks of holidaying left and you’re heading north to warmer weather (think swimming and water parks). Once the cast was on and some more pain relief Mac did seem a little more comfortable, so we drove to the harbour to look around. It was really windy, but we saw some dolphins and did a little bit of walking.

The next morning we packed up and left to start our journey north into Queensland.

On our way out of Coffs Harbour we took a mandatory photo with the Big Banana.