Newcastle and Blackbutt Nature Reserve

For our second week of volunteer work we stayed in Newcastle in New South Wales, north of Sydney. we stayed in a volunteer house known as the beach hut because it was only a five minute walk to the beach, we also visited Blackbutt nature reserve and Glenrock national park while staying there.

Newcastle NSW, from Google Earth.

Newcastle is the second largest city in New South Wales after Sydney, it's full of pubs and bars and has a great beach and rockpools as well as plenty shops and trails to walk.

Team Convent on the loose in Newcastle.

Animal family left-right: lemur, hamster, giraffe, snapping turtle, cheetah, snow owl, hawk.

Having Vietnamese, very yummy! Newcastle is full of oriental restuarants.

First team photo ever!

Up on a bridge after our conservation discussion.

Team CCCC!

Making Mexican in the volunteer house!

Pearl shells!

Newcastle view from the park.

Surfers everywhere!

Ocean swimming pool, no jellyfish etc.!

Newcastle beach :D

Part of the outdoor shopping centre.

Brilliant!

Parrot :)

Harbour walkway.

"OMG guys, it's a fucking octopus!" - Tim Veldhof, 2011 lmao

Wombat, the most awesome animal ever!

A very sweet koala.

Chilled out koala.

A pair of goannas.

A black swan, very strange!

Creepy emu.

Kangaroo!

Newcastle: http://www.visitnewcastle.com.au/

Blackbutt Nature Reserve: http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/recreation/blackbutt_reserve