The Gateway to NSW! Kingscliff, Australia! Camper Van Adventures

[@libbypeace68]

Kingscliff, Hastings Point and Pottsville beaches are the beaches of my childhood :D

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Places are amazing!

[@KatieBarnes-nz2hz]

love Hastings Point ❤️

[@galaxyexplorer6189]

The little sandballs I think soldier crabs make those..Yew.🦀😃🤟.🌊

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

You are probably right! We love the name solider crab!

[@martingifford5415]

It's fun when the fisherpersons return and clean their fish and the huge pelicans crowd around for some food.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Yeah that is cool!

[@wayneanderson419]

Hot tip with those pancake mixes in the bottle...use hot water to fill to just below the line. Give it a good shake and let it sit for 5 mins. Then use. Should thicken up and not be runny. Safe travels!

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Ok cool thank you! We will try that!

[@taniahillard5043]

So glad that you got a coffee from there, they are a young couple with a new baby that recently bought it! You helped a new business starting out love❤

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

We actually saw his wife and baby! They are very nice! Hope they are successful. Maybe show them the video if you know them!

[@sgm6690]

Port Stephens/Nelson Bay has lovely beaches and huge sand dunes. Great beaches all the way down the New South Wales coast especially south of Sydney. We also enjoyed the small yet gorgeous town of Bellingen 20km inland from Coffs Harbour. Kids can swim in the river and there’s lots of waterfalls along the waterfall way.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Plan on going to a few of those!

[@allanahquinn7277]

Another vote for Crescent Head on the NSW mid north coast. Iconic surfing spot. Also Nelson Bay/ShoalBay/Fingal Bay as great spots for the kids.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay cool! We plan on trying to do at least one of those!

[@6226superhurricane]

@@TheWickmansLife2024 you don't want to miss port stephens.

[@karekerry4362]

Beautiful little beachside town😊 The kids are just Adorable 🥰. Safe and Happy Travels 🌟

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you! We love KingsCliff!

[@jaysonaustralia6923]

Hope everything is meeting your expectations, only just found your channel and it's awesome! Would be more than happy to welcome you guys permanently to Australia!

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Everything has been amazing! Hope you enjoy the videos! We would love to stay for good! Just need these videos to help out a bit lol!

[@jaysonaustralia6923]

@ I’m sure the way they are going it won’t take long. Maybe do some interviews with locals? Or find other Americans to interview here?

[@keviningram6121]

NSW has it all. Underrated. Hope you make to Forster/Tuncurry. Great ocean pool there for the kids

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

We agree! Unreal places!

[@karencornish1060]

What a great place, just love your adventures 🥰 it is putting untold pressure on my husband to start taking ourselves to all these wonderful places that you have visited and we have never been to and we are Australian lol😮😅

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you! Hopefully not too much pressure lol! Get out and enjoy! Glad you like the videos

[@HavenWhangamata]

Love you content. You will see more great beaches as you head south.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Can’t wait! Thank you!

[@ThorWatson-vikingbeserkerking]

Gidday, just come across your channel.. what a lovely family. Ya gunna get a lot of aussies telling you where to go next cause it’s so beautiful. So forget travelling the rest of the world & just travel Aus for us to hear it from you guys! Yeah BBQ sce is the bomb. Hope you have an awesome time down under 😊

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thats the plan we love it!

[@davidjohnpaul333]

Welcome to NSW. That looked like a Blue Tongued Lizard. I don't know how old the videos are, but I assume you are still in my state. Make sure you go to Byron Bay; Port Macquarie; Coffs Harbour; Port Stephens & when in Sydney, you have to go to the Blue Mountains - something away from the beaches. Loving all the videos. Your daughter reminds me of my niece ☺☺ With 10,700 beaches Australia wide & 100 just in Sydney alone, we are definitely spoilt for choice 😎

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

We have a few of those on the list thank you! Glad you enjoy the videos!

[@boppermacca9346]

Great video. If you ever get to the Mid north coast of NSW, there is a beautiful place called Crescent head & it has a great long board break. Look it up it is a special place

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay cool we will look it up! Thank you!

[@RachelHaskins]

Hope you guys make it down to the Hunter Valley and Port Stephens. Newcastle has some of the best surf beaches and hands down the Stockton sand dunes will be the best sand boarding you will ever do. You must see these dunes! And Nelson Bay is a piece of magic. The Bogey hole in Newcastle, Mereweather, the ocean baths so many beautiful places and Naru on Lake Macquarie a beautiful spot on the lake for kiddies. Swansea a perfect camping spot and only a stones throw to the vineyards and the Mountains. The upper Allyn and Ladies Well in particular are a must see with free camping sites>

[@Sonofabeach2006]

I second that.. get down here.. yeeewww 😎🤙🏽

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

We definitely have a few of those on the list! Thank you!

[@ChristopherJewels]

@ You're going to be spoiled for choice. There are spectacular beaches all the way to the Victorian border.

[@69lure]

I went to Kingscliff Public school 52yrs ago ..That creek is normally Icey blue clear water ..Great fishing have crossed the Entrance (Kingy Bar) thousands of times its shallow some times you cant get back untill there is enough water so you have to time it with the tides..Great Snorkeling around Kingscliff reef the reef out the front of the Entrance ...Pt Danger was named by Cook because of Fidos and 9 mile reef behind cook Island or Turtle Island that you would have seen when looking back up north from Kingy Beach..

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thats really cool! Thank you for all the information and history! Love learning about your beautiful country! Wish we could of snorkeled the reef!

[@colinpryor6590]

A tip for you with the pancake mix. You can use a stubby of beer instead of water. Yum and you're welcome 👍

[@suewinston-elliott2674]

😅

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay we will try that thank you!

[@thosebikepackers]

We love Kingscliff. Been here for 6 months. Great little spot and much quieter than Gold Coast.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Yes it’s really sweet! Wish we could spend two weeks there

[@robertschulz7454]

Watching your vids and seeing xander and ariah grow up is amazing, southern Queensland and northern NSW is the best, [I Think]. need to see some surfing

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you for enjoying! Trust you me I would love for there to be more surf! It’s been a bit slow up should heat up a bit soon!

[@siryogiwan]

I live in Coffs Harbour area further south, if you want a list of places to see from Coffs out to Dorrigo and down to Kempsey areas, including a free camp site or 2, I can help you out. Coffs has rope bridges etc up in canopy of trees, dad may enjoy trying to walk, there's a rainforest walk there too, which ends at a lookout, seeing as far south as your eyes and weather allows, also the big banana, great fishing in the area, both fresh and salt water, including estuary, beach and rock fishing. The town 10-20min to the south, called Sawtell (where I am), is a quaint coastal village and has a rock pool on the southern headland, near the mouth of the creek and a free BBQ area where bush turkeys roam around. Coffs people had issues with people camping too long in certain places, but you can find a couple spots I won't mention on here, that I can share privately Dorrigo has a national park through rainforest, where you walk under a waterfall and there's also a swimming hole at the base of a waterfall not far from it, which I reckon kids would love, at the base of Dorrigo is a mapped free campsite, on the main road up the mountain, you have to go through Bellingen, which is a must-visit town, historic buildings everywhere, the Hammond and Wheatley building has an ambience about it, and they have pictures of its history on walls Near Kempsey, you have South West Rocks, where there's a convict gaol, that was a pow camp in WWII, and now a museum, it sits just above the beach, and camping grounds (paid sites), further up the hill from gaol, is the grave of a famous convict "The Wild Colonial Boy", which had songs (name in lyrics had to be changed because of laws put in place about glorifying criminals in song) and movies made inspired by his story. Going out west, you'll find "the pub with no beer" Slim Dusty wrote about in the song, it's an ancient pub, full of memorabilia of days gone by, not a lot else out that way, so not somewhere most people visit as a tourist, but still an experience worthy of having. There's going to be some awesome places all the way down to Coffs, way too many to name, but Yamba, Illuka, Minnie Waters and Angourie are worth stopping if you get chance

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

I think we will try to make it to a few of those! Thank you for the tips!

[@alandavey3010]

great video enjoy the memories

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you! We are enjoying!

[@Cactus0404]

The sand balls are from little crabs digging holes I think. You get to see then in Broome in Western Australia on the beaches.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

That’s what we were thinking! So cool!

[@aerotuc]

You guys are so resiliant

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you! We try to be!

[@StephenMoore-vc7ku]

G’day 💕. Mate, you gotta do something about the headroom in your camper 😁. I love seeing where you are each week 😊. That looked beautiful at Kingscliff, I checked it out on google earth 👍. Yous went for free wifi & legroom with a delicious snack😊. Too right mate, I use barbecue sauce than tomato sauce (ketchup). Better flavour. Did your hubby (husband) enjoy the waves 🌊? Glad yous got to see some pelicans. They’re my favourite animal 😉 Also, I appreciate the history lesson wherever yous film from. Stephen 🇦🇺

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

How’s it going?! Hope all is well! Glad you enjoy the videos! The waves were very fun just wish we would of got more on camera! Didn’t last long. The pelicans are really cool! Thanks for the support it means a lot!

[@scottchlopek]

If you make it down to southern nsw be sure to check out Merimbula and pambula, one of the best barrels around at Pambula too if conditions are right 👌👌

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay cool thank you! Waves have been slow but Hopefully we can make it there!

[@MarkSchwartzkopff-lz2ow]

Merimbula a favourite for me.

[@scottchlopek]

It's an absolute paradise for the kids and same with the pambula river mouth where the barrels are

[@steves524]

Hi Guys liking your series, if your visiting the Blue Mountains, looks us up for a local tour of the best places..🎉

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay thank you!

[@70chevs]

The only difference between most of the beaches in Australia is how many people are on them. If you get away from the major cities and towns you can pretty much have a beach to yourself.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Yes that is true! All beautiful some just more popular!

[@skullandcrossbones65]

G'day, BBQ sauce is a reigonal thing. As you get south they tend to use Tomato Sauce, much more like Ketchup. BBQ is more like vinigar with burnt sugar, sounds better than it taste.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

It’s very good actually!

[@skullandcrossbones65]

@@TheWickmansLife2024 Talk like that will have people unsubscribing!!!

[@tironibusmaximus6100]

@@skullandcrossbones65 watchatlkin about old fella, BBQ sauce on egg and bacon roll can't be beaten

[@somefatbugger]

My brother lives in Pottsville, south of Kingscliff, having done so for about 18 years. I intend to move to Kingscliff area in the next 2 years when my wife retires.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

It’s an awesome spot! We love Kingscliff!

[@letstalk3265]

Hey guys, the brown in the water is always because of too much fresh water ie rain. Fishing tends to be a no go until the salt water starts to gain ascendancy again. That section of Northern NSW's is God's country. From Tweed Heads all the way down to Port Stephens. Development is limited until you get down to Byron Bay and then further south is less again. Can I recommend you stop into Brunswick Heads. There is a great small beach on the inside of the rock walls at the mouth of the Brunswick River just as you cross the bridge over to the beach access area. Big play areas to chill in including the walking bridge right next to the caravan park. The Brunswick Hotel is a must to do lunch.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay cool we will remember that. When it’s brown don’t bother dropping it down! Hopefully we can get to Brunswick Head that sounds amazing!

[@tonycurrie2964]

The trick to the pancakes shake is to mix it the night before and put it in the fridge overnight.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay that’s a great idea thank you!

[@lonnie224]

If you’re heading south, make sure you stop at Yamba. It’s beautiful. Just watch out for the mozzies.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

On the list! Everyone recommends it!

[@BrettNoneya]

South of Yamba is Angourie an incredible surfing spot and 2 little spots down south of there are Brooms Head and also Sandon River campground. They have hardly changed in 50 years. Insane beaches. few k dirt road to Sandon River campground but we used to just camp beside the river next to the road. Guess you still can.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

That sounds amazing! Hopefully we can make it there!

[@ChristopherJewels]

@ Another vote for Yamba. The view from the Headland carpark at the lighthouse is spectacular.

[@BrettNoneya]

@ I put that area in as Angourie is a national surfing reserve. Nat young has lived and surfed there most of his life and has one of the best righthand point break in the world.

[@louisaklimentos7583]

Any national park along the east coast of NSW have spectacular beaches and wild life . Inland has amazing scenery such as mountains , rivers, lakes and waterfalls . Check out the waterfall way inland from Coffs Harbour . Also the hinterland of Byron Bay is gorgeous such as Night Cap national park and Bellingen River national park . Enjoy your time in Kingscliff .

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you for the suggestions! Thank you!

[@stevemurrell6167]

The fantastic journey continues!👌May I suggest, if you are going that far south, check out Tathra on the Sapphire Coast in southern NSW. Absolutely beautiful spot with a historic wharf which is well worth seeing. Also Eden, which has a whaling past where killer whales used to help the whalers corral the whales for capture. BTW, I'm not into whaling at all but just found the Eden story quite fascinating. Travel well!

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

That sounds like a crazy story would love to learn more about that! Thank you for the support!

[@garrysalis4312]

Have surfed that spot a few times, super fun when head high.🤙

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

I bet that spot at head high is awesome! Wish I could of got it really good!

[@garrysalis4312]

Still looks fun knee to waist.

[@DK-lg7ti]

Excellent video

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you!

[@matallens3006]

You guys are awesome, I'm on east coast at st George's basin NSW a fairly quiet rural costal town great area for fishing and for small children it's a sheltered basin great for boats and fishing and not big waves unfortunately so not good for surfing but great little hiking trails around the Basin take care guys enjoy our beautiful country, what do you think it is like compared to America and Australia likes and dislikes, would love to hear what you think of lifestyle compared to America lifestyle and choices and rights you have over there compared to Australia the food ,coffee and seafood in comparison to America food and seafoods. Love your vids you would be great tourist ambassadors for Australia / American family camping and fishing , surfing holidays .see you on you next videos 👍😊👋👌🇦🇺🦘🪃✌️🏄🌊🏄🌊🌊🌊

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you! Australia is awesome! Everywhere in the world has its pros and cons. American and Australia both have a lot of pros and some cons as well but both awesome places. BUT WE REALLY LIKE Australia!

[@TheVman70]

We love our Coffee in OZ, but it is costly- we recently switched to a de longhi dedica arte- $199 at the good guys. We use soy (bonsoi) because it’s sweeter and froths up better than normal milk and an anko (Kmart) milk frother/warmer. All up we are saving about $300/month after milk and ground coffee costs

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Yeah it really is good but sometimes you have to pay for it! It’s worth it

[@TheVman70]

P.S Station Creek Campground- just south of Wooli- you gotta see it- also Red Head

[@ChristopherJewels]

If the crowds and parking at Byron Bay are too much, try the Broken Head nature reserve. Kingscliff is a nice little family friendly beach resort. Cabarita, Hastings Point, Pottsville & Brunswick Heads all have nice little beaches enroute.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay cool we will keep that in mind! A few ppl have suggested it!

[@andrewcoulter323]

use squid for bait, it's tough stays on the hook and nearly everything eats squid

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay good call! Thank you!

[@looking8030]

💯👌🏽

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Thank you!

[@taniahillard5043]

They’re water dragons, the water is dark because of tea tree and farm land red soil run off wich also includes cow dung, which is why people avoid swimming . 😊not very highgenic 😢.. when it’s clean it is almost like glass

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Noted! Thank you when brown stay out the water lol!

[@marcusgraham9478]

Very enjoyable video, teaching me about places in my country that I have never been, good stuff, PS, how are you handling our Aussie slang lingo ? 🏄

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Glad you like the videos! We enjoy the Aussie lingo!

[@scientiawelt3670]

Give us a van tour please😊😊 how much does it cost to buy or rent

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

The first video of our series shows the van off and I think it was $6500 USD for 60 days

[@Final_Cut_FF]

👍

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Glad you like it!

[@65damdamdam]

Those shake and bake pancakes have a line on the bottle to fill the liquid too. Which you probably did. But those pancakes looked normal to me. Maybe Aussies have them thinner than US

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Yeah I think they are just a little thinner than what we are use to!

[@hardyakka6200]

14:22 Great to see mum does cook for the family. Your kids look so healthy.. I like piklets myself. Your kids aren tvintimadated by the reptiles. Only time lizards anfvgoanas putvthe wind up me is when they charge straight at with mouths agape.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Yes she does. We actually eat more in the camper than anything. The kids are scared of much lol but The parents don’t necessarily like them lol!

[@gregoryparnell2775]

I am interested in how far you guys are going .Is Tazzie & Perth in the plans?.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Unfortunately we won’t make it that far! Maybe next time tho!

[@gregoryparnell2775]

@@TheWickmansLife2024 If you ever get to Eden on the sapphire coast duck into the Sapphire Smokehouse for a feed My daughter & her husband would love some honest feedback from Food vloggers & KZbinrs.

[@practicalnottactical]

Don’t buy the Greens brand, get the White Wings pancake mix and put just a little less water than the instructions.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Okay cool thank you!

[@jkalinna5607]

if your down there try Maries Pizza the best pizza at the GC

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Ok cool we will try to make it!

[@xaj1543]

Tomato sauce is ketchup, not BBQ sauce.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Yes this is true!

[@ChristopherJewels]

@ Apparently there are subtle differences between tomato sauce and ketchup. Either way if the burger bread is fresh and the ingredients are great, it hardly matters.

[@stuarthancock571]

Shane, BBQ sauce is still that brown BBQ sauce. Like Sweet Baby Rays. In Australia ketchup is called tomato sauce.

[@TheWickmansLife2024]

Yeah I just meant how Aussies use BBQ sauce is the equivalent to ketchup back home.

[@ChristopherJewels]

@ What's ranch sauce taste like, or is that a Texas thing?