Newcastle surroundings

Hunter Valley Wine Country

You can find some jobs like harvesting grapes during the summer months early Janurary and through Feburary and in Autumn as well, pruning the plants in preparation for the next harvest. This kind of jobs are very hard, because you are all day on fields and there is extremly hot.
They can you hire on a very short-term basis. You could meet some other backpckers. There are jobs on farms. Other opportunities are in hospitality, housemaids.

Holidaymakers! Stay 2 nights!

To do and see list:

Hunter Valley Zoo 19 AUD
1 hour
- free photo with your camera about a koala and you
- pat or / and feed kangoroo (and a baby kangaroo when they have), koala, lorikeet, goat, deer, sheep, emu, ostrich
- you could NOT cuddle a koala!

Hunter Valley Garden 25 AUD
2 hours

Hunter Valley Shopping Village:
Broke Road, Pokolbin
- Aqua Golf
- Bliss Coffee
- Hand-made prenium Cookies
- Cheese tasting
  McGuigans complex McDonalds Road, Pokolbin
- Olive Oils tasting (with lime, lemon, mandarin, chili taste)
- Chocolate tasting

Cessnock Wine Country
- Balloon rides
- Cooking classes
- Horse riding
- Bike hire
- Art galleries
- 5 hours Hunter Valley Wineries visiting is 100 AUD with lunch (lunch is 45 AUD)
- Bimbadeen Lookout

Accomodations in Cessnock and surroundings:

1. Hunter Valley YHA
Address: 100 Wine Country Drive, Nulkaba NSW 2325

Rates:
- in 8 Dorm: 27 AUD / night
- double room with bathroom for a couple: 86 AUD / night

Good things:
-swimming pool
- sauna


2. Bottlebrush Backpacker
Address: 26b Cumberland Street, Cessnock 2325 (Centre)

Rates:
- in 8 Dorm: 30 AUD / night, weekend 40 AUD / night, but 2 nights 60 AUD
- double room for couples: 70 AUD / night, weekend 100 AUD / night

Good things:
- free parking
- good location: behind the main street



Williamtown
Quad tour

Port Stephens
Sandboarding 25 AUD
Camel ride 25 AUD
Whale and dolphin watch