Given that I have been asking the kids to keep their diaries up to date, I thought I had better get on to mine..
Lane Cove NP was a beautiful place, complete with plenty of wildlife like possums, frogs, bandicoots and Australian Brush Turkeys. The first night we stayed we heard a bit of rustling in the annex and in the morning found a half eaten apple on the ground, so we figure we were visited by one of the cute creatures on the right.
We caught the train to the Quay and checked out the Opera House, Darling Harbour and the Powerhouse museum. A nice day in all.
The next morning we woke to incredibly heavy rain, with forecasts of NSW's wettest week of the year!! The photo on the left was taken from our annex door and, being typical of the day's rain, explained the swampiness of our annex floor. Fortunately the kids were both a little weary from lots of busy days so didn't mind a cruisy day sitting inside the main tent watching movie after movie.
Given the forecast was for much more of the same for several days, we packed our soggy tent the next morning (in rain much like the picture) and got in the car. Hopefully that is the most difficult pack-up we are going to get. Not knowing where we were going we drove until the radar gave some indication of better times ahead. We ended up here, in Nambucca Heads about an hour south of Coffs Harbour at around 5 pm. With more rain forecast we couldn't bear the thought of erecting our soggy tent so opted for the cabin and left the camper for another day.
It wasn't a pleasant experience opening up the camper the next day and of course the rain set in just as we decided to do it but we did it. We then proceeded to wash and dry a lot of the bedding, drain the toolbox, dry out the chairs that even managed to get wet inside the trailer and eventually we were back on track. The kids were loving the pool here in the park complete with water slide, Ben beat Paul at a game of pool and life was good again.
Thursday night we got through a night without rain, there were a few spots here and there during the day Friday but we still got out on our bikes and had a look around this beautiful place, the kids spent more time in the pool (Paul and I even had some fun on the waterslide) and then made us pizza in the Camp Kitchen. That night our purchase of a heavy duty tarp the day before came in handy as we got close to 100 mm of rain again overnight!! The difference this time was that the day today was absolutely superb and we visited nearby Valla Beach, more swimming in the pool, walks and just general pleasantness.
Some photos from Nambucca Heads:
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| The lagoon at our caravan park |
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| Looking back across the lagoon |
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| The seawall at Nambucca Heads, for years people have been leaving their mark, some of them were fantastic |
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| Soldier crabs, there were thousands of them |
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| Not exactly a swimming beach but beautiful for a walk before dinner |
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| Still doesn't go far without a footy (even if they don't even know about footy cards in NSW and the pubs don't have FOX FOOTY!) |
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| Looking out to the Heads |
The next morning we woke to incredibly heavy rain, with forecasts of NSW's wettest week of the year!! The photo on the left was taken from our annex door and, being typical of the day's rain, explained the swampiness of our annex floor. Fortunately the kids were both a little weary from lots of busy days so didn't mind a cruisy day sitting inside the main tent watching movie after movie. 
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