Rick and Rae's Travels: Mon, 21st to Tues, 22nd Nov

Reluctantly, we left the really nice park in Grafton. e had to cross the Clarence River via a scarey bridge that is very narrow and has several bends in it. We had to stop at one point to allow a tanker coming towards us to use part of our lane to negotiate one of the bends in the bridge. The concrete walls are all scarred from vehicles hitting them as it is so narrow.

We drove about 50kms to a little town on the coast called Wooli but it didn't really appeal to us. The park there was very exposed and windy so we continued to Woolgoolga which is about 30kms north of Coffs Harbour. We had lunch in Woolgoolga before continuing another 20kms to Moonee Beach where we found a much more sheltered park with a pleasant outlook and checked in for two nights.

On Tuesday we drove 12kms into Coffs Harbour and had a look around. We walked the jetty and watched some young volley-ballers on the beach. We drove around a bit more, visited a lookout and admired some of the beautiful homes in the adjacent hills. While driving around we clicked over 30,000kms of our trip. On the way back to the van park we called in to Carobina Confectionery. We were able to go into the kitchen there and watch as a fellow demonstrated how they make big slabs of honeycomb. Of course we couldn't leave without tasting some of the products and making some purchases. After lunch we booked into a park at South West Rocks which is about 90kms north of Port Macquarie for four days. In the afternoon we went for a swim in the warm shallows of a creek directly in front of the caravan park. We waded across the creek and over to the beach but it was way too windy to stay for long.