Trailing Bob: Driving South.

It’s Friday night and we are down at the beach, its 7’oclock, the sky is slowly getting darker and we are trying to figure out when it will be safe to pop the top on Bob, a pretty common conversation for us at this time of night. I guess we figure as long as we haven’t popped the top of the camper we are not necessarily camping; and therefore can not really be fined the $300 per person penalty, which we are subjected to along most of the coast over here. The other night we found a pretty nice spot next to the railway track up in the hills behind Coffs Harbour. The noise of the trains coming past every few hours of the night was slightly unnerving to wake up to as it sounded as if the train was coming closer and closer to the car, ready to smash us into a thousand tiny pieces. After the first few we were a little more used to it, and once our heads hit the pillows we didn’t awake again until morning. What we didn’t realise was…. it was a train line for passenger trains, so I’m sure the workers heading into town for a hard days work were a little surprised to see a campervan parked up on route into the big smoke.

The last few weeks we have spent slowly driving down from the gold coast passing through the coastal towns of far north NWS. Yamba deserves a mention, a small town with beautiful beaches, Brett managed to sneak in a few surfs, the swell has been pretty miniscule and the rain is still hanging around but when you haven’t been working for the last 5 months, spending most of your life outside, eating awesome food, doing want you want when you want to, well, we can’t really complain to much!

Rainforest in Dorrigo National Park.

Last week we took a road trip, the weather forecast wasn’t looking amazing and decent waves were defiantly not looking promising so we decided to take a holiday from our holiday and we headed 500k inland to outback NSW. From Grafton we passed through a few smaller towns to hit the big smoke and hot artisan spa baths of Moree! Checking the weather over here at the moment doesn’t really do you many favours, its generally isn’t right and if it is it is only when it has forecasted rain and you would rather it be wrong anyway. The weather is all over the place it can’t make up its mind so you just take the days as they come and enjoy the sunshine when its shining down on you. We figured the hot springs of out back NSW would be hot, relaxing and something a little different rain hail or shine so that’s where our Road trip took us out west to the red dirt and cattle country of Moree, Burren junction and eventually back around to the Country Music Capital of Australia Tamworth!

The golden Guitar In Country Music Captital Tamworth.

Moree town itself wasn’t too much to write home about so I won’t waste your time. Luckily we had booked ourselves into the local caravan park which had a licence for 5 hot baths which draw water from about 900meter underground and its come out at a nice 40 degrees! So we spent most of the day and next morning kicking back with the oldies and drowning ourselves in the hot spas. We then trekked 200k to our next hot bath, a real one then time with no added chorine it was a little cooler about 35, and a fair bit dirtier but after a few dips we were cleaned than we had been the entire trip.

The road trip went pretty well, Meegan had a nice stack in one of the national parks, tripping on a rock and slicing up her hand on a glass bottle; luckily all the goodness of the hot springs cleaned it up pretty well.

Moral of the story: Do night walk on rocks with glass bottles!

T for Tom.
To finish off the Road trip we checked out a few national parks as we made out way back towards the coast and came into Coffs harbour on Thursday morning to stock up the fridge at the local Farmers market it town .It was nice to get back out into the bush again; the coast is so populated over here compared to back at home. Travelling around is awesome, seeing different things everyday, but its even better when you can’t find anything that comes close to what you have, back where the trip started in the beautiful southwest of WA.

Keeping the flys off during a road side lunch stop near Tamworth.

Brett taking a dip.

This Boat hit the reef the night before we arrived in Brooms Head follwo the link for the full story http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2010/10/19/cruiser-beached-at-the-broom/.