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| Nambucca Heads Main Beach |
This morning we woke up to another glorious day - yahoooo. We had a lazy-ish morning and then had breakfast and packed up ready to continue north wards to Nambucca Heads. It wasn't that far a journey - about 130 miles. In fact at one stage it looked like we were going to arrive way to early at the holiday park so we decided to have elevenses at the first independent coffee shop we could find. After a few false starts we arrived in a town called Kempsey and decided to come off the highway in search coffee. We went a bit wrong and ended up travelling about 20Km out of our way to a place called Crescent Head. We were expecting it to be a wild run down place as according to the guide book it was a township on a piece of land which was the first to given back to Aborigines by the Australian Government after they were able to prove a continuous connection to it - this took place as late as 1996!!!!! We didn't see one Aboriginal face.
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| Writing practice on the beach |
However we did find an extremely good and bustling bakery and coffee shop so we had a late elevenses and decided to see if we could find a minor road back to the highway which we did. It was nice to be off he highway for a while, we drove past cattle farms - with some very serious looking cows in the fields or as we like to say - beef on four legs. We were puzzled for a while as to why the sheep were so woolly but then remembered that although it is hot for us, it is cold for them right now - being the middle of Winter.
We got to the caravan park just gone 1 and checked in. We have a slightly smaller cabin here - Tom has a bottom bunk in a corridor between the living area and our bedroom. He's happy enough. We have a cooker but it is just an oven and a grill, no hob, so have to use the camp kitchen for anything that needs cooking in a saucepan.
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| Running into the sea |
We headed straight off to the beach at Nambucca Heads as we had promised Tom another play in the sea. I have been here before - in fact it is the location of one of my best travel stories from my time as a backpacker as it was in a hostel here that I met someone who shared a cell with Chopper (a notorious Australian murderer). We all went to the cinema that night to watch a film - we decided on an Australian film called 'Chopper' not knowing anything about him. Then when we arrived back at the hostel we met one of his cell mates, Jimmy who was portrayed in the film. It was all a bit bizarre. Needless to say bedrooms were firmly locked and possible escape routes noted - disturbing at the time but a great travel story afterwards.
Anyway, normally the place is a sleepy holiday town, which is what it was today. We found the beach and ate our picnic and then got changed to play in the sea. This where I had my first 'oops' moment of the holiday. I found out that I have packed the wrong swimsuit - my pre-Tom one! I can't possibly be seen wearing it in public, so put a T-shirt over the top and kept fiddling with it for the rest of the afternoon. Tom was very pleased to be on the beach again, but for some reason he seemed more afraid of the sea than yesterday and seemed more content playing rugby on the beach rather than jumping in the waves.
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| Pelicans |
After an hour and a half we went in search of Woolies for some food - we got some kangaroo burgers and flavoured chicken kebabs and potato wedges. Not our usual diet - this place is quite like America in that it isn't very well set up for eating / cooking veggies.
We then took Tom to a playground by the river we saw on the way in. We noticed some Pelicans on the river and went in search of them - such huge birds.
We then headed back to the campsite, this one has working wifi and a laundry so we hurriedly put the laundry to good use - it's amazing how quickly dirty clothes build up. Then I grilled the kangaroo burgers and roasted the potato wedges. They were very pleasant, in fact you wouldn't know that the burgers weren't made of beef - according to the packaging they are 98% fat free so you could argue they are healthy too.
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