The good news for the morning was that Scheppi was showing some definite improvement and although not quite back to his old self, he was certainly a bit more lively than he had been yesterday. The bad news was - I stole a Gecko. On checking that one of the bedroom windows was locked before travelling, I discovered this little guy who had obviously crawled up onto the window yesterday at the Sunshine Coast, had been locked up and stolen from his home. Faced with the task of either driving 200km north to take him home and rehoming him in one of the permanent resident's gardens, we bid him farewell and warned him to stay out of the way of the local Ibis who liked to stroll the camp grounds each day.
On the way out of town we filled up with fuel and couldn't believe the price of unleaded!
And although technically we had stayed in NSW overnight, our milestone of travelling in NSW began properly today.
We took a detour to visit Byron Bay along the way but unfortunately it was so busy and streets so narrow that we didn't get to spend much time there towing a 19ft caravan.
Northern NSW seem to love tunnels and they do fancy ones - sometimes it seems just because they didn't want to blast a hole in a hill to make way for a freeway. Fancy inside as well - fans, lights (probably bells and whistles too but we had the radio on).
A little way further on we stopped to have a break and let the dogs out to stretch their legs. I remarked to Shane that I had seen people travel with a lot of different pets but this took the cake.
The guy said he just stopped for a sandwich and next thing these two roosters appeared out of the bush. Clever little things that they were, when he moved on they came to suss out what we might have to eat, and when we closed the door on them, they moved further down to another car that pulled up at the end of the rest area. It's no wonder their feathers were so shiney, they scored a muffin out of us and a few scraps of bread from the other guy - so they were quite adept at conning food out of people - cheeky little buggers.
And then there was this "interesting" registration plate (click to enlarge).
Ahhhh yes, the road was long and Shiney was bored.
We didn't arrive in Coffs Harbour until around 3.00pm and had a bit of difficulty locating a van park that took dogs. At first glance the park we did choose looked a bit dodgy and we had to laugh at our site when we finally did pull in as it was a bit like camping on someone's nature-strip. There was the Highway, a grassy verge, a narrow track that looked more like a footpath than the road it was supposed to be and then our site. However the noise wasn't so bad, the power worked and water came out of the tap, so it was far from the worst campsite we've had along the way.
We did a quick tour before dark to see what Coffs Harbour had to offer. I thought the strangest thing was that Coffs Harbour itself is about 3km from the actual harbour. If we hadn't gone looking for it, we would have thought Coffs was pretty small. The jetty provided some interesting photographic opportunities before we did a quick grocery shop and headed back to our nature-strip for the night.
No comments:
Post a Comment