Monday 16 September 2013 – Nambucca Heads to Forster-Tuncurry

Today in a nutshell – rain, rain, rain!  There was heavy rain during the evening yesterday, and I heard it through the night as well, but it had stopped when we woke at about 6.30am.  And though the clouds were quite threatening, we did manage to get the van packed up and readied for travel before the rain started this morning.  We filled up with petrol before we left and joined the Pacific Highway with its continuing roadworks making a regular appearance.

The drive was uneventful, with the only major town along the way today being Kempsey, which we could have bypassed, but we didn’t.  It is a very old town, most of the buildings were showing their age, and the houses were quite small – a dead give away in this age of mega-houses.

Drizzling rain accompanied us for the majority of the way, so we weren’t looking forward to setting up the van in the rain.  Once here we booked into the Big 4 Tuncurry Great Lakes Holiday Park, and picked a waterfront site – well we can live in hope of sunshine, when the outlook would be beautiful – I think.  Setting up time could have been worse, it wasn’t bucketing down, but there was constant mizzle, so we were looking a bit the worse for wear when we settled into the van (around 1pm)

After lunch we went to find the Telstra shop to get my dongle problem sorted …… simple – it had run out or money (it’s pre-paid). I was horrified as I had put a lot of money on it just before we left, and it’s all gone – well there was 1 cent left!  I obviously overdid keeping up with a couple of tv shows I was watching when we left home – they must gorge on the bytes.  Lesson learnt! I know, I’m a slow learner.  So now that I have put some money into it I am back on air!

By then it was raining very steadily and has continued since.  So once back at camp we indulged in a couple of cuppas, I finished the book I started the day before yesterday, and since tea we’ve played a couple of games of scrabble.

So that’s where we are at – let’s hope it isn’t so bad tomorrow and we can get a bit of a picture of the area in its glory!