Tuesday 17 September 2013 – Catching up

Well during the night we felt as if we were back home and it was early July – we had heavy rain and wind all evening and well into the night, so we were very pleasantly surprised when we woke this morning to sunshine!  And fortunately it remained that way for most of the day, and it definitely gave us a better look at the Tuncurry Forster area in its glory.

So after our usual morning routine, including a lengthy chat to a bloke from Tassie, we got ourselves organised, went across the bridge to Foster to the bakery where I bought a nice blueberry teacake, then drove out to Darawank (about fourteen kilometres away to visit Mark’s Mum Terry and her husband Patrick who live in the Wallamba River Holiday Park there.  They made us very welcome, and had invited Terry’s brother John and his wife Wendy over for morning tea as well, so it was good to see them again.

We had a real catch up, as it was a while since we had seen them, and finished up staying for lunch (fish and chips from the little café attached to the camp).  They are all really well and seem to be enjoying life.  I took several nice photos while we were there – at least I thought they were nice until I got back to camp and went to load them onto the computer when I realised that the camera didn’t have a card in it!!  I take the card out each evening, insert it in the computer and upload the latest batch of photos, and the card was still in the USB port on the computer.

We left there at about 2.30 and drove through to Forster again (over the long bridge) as I had to get some medication, then came back to camp. Grant then went and threw the line in beside the caravan (spinning today – he had a go this morning as well), but had no luck.  I took my cuppa and book over to the park bench and read/watched him fishing for a while then came back as it looked a very threatening black sky.  However nothing came of it (we did have a shower of rain at Darawank, but it mustn’t have reached here as the towels I’d left out on the clothes horse were quite dry).

After tea tonight I booked our next three nights accommodation online, so that’s out of the way (school holidays starting here on Thursday), so that’s been today.  No photos to add to the blog tonight for obvious reasons!