THE NAKAWALOCKDOWN / BEACHWATCH MASH-UP WE NEED (Ep. 2)

Roam if you want to (but please check ahead for local travel restrictions)

Roam around the world (actually, just within your state) 

Roam if you want to (bahala ka) 

Without anything but the love (and allowable body temperature) we fe-eeeel

Sand Dunes at Port Stephens

Visually stunning and apparently a mecca for influencers, judging by all the people in gowns and capes and other "effortless" IG attire.  Quote the LLDD-Hyphen-L: kung alam ko lang, nag-Filipiniana sana ako    

Tomaree Head across Nelson Bay

So if you can't afford to stay at one of Nelson Bay's luxury accommodations, head up the Tomaree Head walk, and look down on those who can =)

Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse over Seal Rocks Beach

That's...just an awesome combination of words.   Nothing to add.

Hidden Farmhouse somewhere in Buladelah

Our base of operations for all these lakbays was a friend's Air BnB-ready farmhouse that was wellll off the beaten paths (and beachfronts), but whose secluded beauty allowed for lots of private posing-for-IG training 

 Work It from Home, so to speak

THE NAKAWALOCKDOWN / BEACHWATCH MASH-UP WE NEED (Ep. 1)

Ok, so if the Australian states are gonna keep blocking each other from inter-state travel, we're just gonna keep it in the family and go intra-state every summer weekend.   There is freedom within, there is freedom without, ika nga nung Masikip na Bahay.

Kiama

We've passed through this popular, picturesque town before and learned our lesson then:  if you want to see the famous Kiama blowhole, you best come in with the tides.  Otherwise, the blowhole will just be, you know, a hole.

this time...so much blow

Gerringong

We were actually driving along the freeway towards another place when our car broke down and we had to pull over into an unfamiliar exit and rather than it be the opening scene of one of those wrong-turn/lost traveler horror flicks it turned out we had actually arrived in Gerringong which was the probably poshest, nicest, least scary place you could think of...

(comes across old cliffside cemetery)....OR WAS IT??

Culburra

Yep, we're back at Coolbura, and it was as IG ready as ever 

as were we