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 Labelled Sydney’s playground because of the abundance of outdoor activities on offer, Port Stephens, just a two and a half hour drive north of Sydney is drawing visitors for its spectacular beaches and amazing sandhills.
But its biggest drawcard for overseas visitors are the bottle-nosed dolphins – at last count 160 of them – which make it Australia’s dolphin capital. Port Stephens has Australia’s largest population of these special creatures, and on a dolphin watch cruise you’ll see dozens cresting the waves and performing for spectators on the boats. But it’s also a great place to go dune-driving ithrough massive sandhills. We spent one day driving off the edge of sheer sand cliffs in the Stockton sand dunes – all 32 kms of them. I’ve been sand-duning in Dubai and Saudi, but this was the craziest. That afternoon we tried sandboarding down the steep slopes on makeshift sandboards. You can also rent a quad bike, though we thought better of this after we came across one injured biker who’d come a cropper doing a daredevil stunt flying off the top of sand dunes…..
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