Lismore, Byron Bay and Forster - January 2022

We decided to do a road trip to visit my in-laws in Lismore. We stopped at Buladelah for a coffee. This bakery has been there since the 60's and was a regular stop on our family trips to Forster in the 1970's...

 

We stopped for lunch at Macksville. The highway has improved hugely since I last drove it and it by-passes all the towns except for Coffs Harbour. So if you want to stop in a town, you have to exit the motorway.

This is the view from my in-laws back deck in Lismore...

We stayed overnight and then headed to Byron Bay for breakfast. Went to Belongil Beach then headed into Byron.

 This is from Belongil looking back to Byron...

This is from Byron, looking north to Belongil...

Then we headed south and spent a night in Forster, remembering many happy family holidays. This is the ocean baths...

We found an Egyptian restaurant overlooking the lake and had dinner there...

Cocktails by the carafe...

Next morning we went for a walk to the breakwater. This is looking back at Forster Beach...

From the end of the breakwater...

This is a new apartment on the site of where we used to stay as kids...

Forster Main Beach...

We had breakfast here before heading back to Sydney...