We slept in on Monday morning ... it has become a bit of a habit, haha. We decided that we wanted to skirt around Newcastle and Sydney so we followed the coast as far south as Forster and then headed inland for 350kms to Singleton via Bulahdelah and Maitland.
We were amazed at the amount of mining that is going on around this
area, mainly coal. We decided we would book into a park in Singleton
for the night. The first one we saw didn't look very nice and it was
located right on the highway, but Rick wanted to check it out. The
manager said he had one site left and it would be $40 per night! No
way! We drove to the next park which was located between two highways.
This one at least looked a lot better. The manageress advised she only
had one site left and it was a site that they only really used for
'overnighters', but we could have it for $40. No way! She went on to
explain that there was very little in the way of accommodation available
in the area due to all the miners.
We decided to drive about 25kms out of town to check out a free camp at
the little township of Broke, called McNamara Park. We were worried
that it might be full too, but we were pleasantly surprised. The park
had a huge grassy area with BBQs, toilets and picnic tables and only had
two other campers set up. We fuelled up at the little service station
down the road and then headed back to set up camp in the park for the
night. We walked down to a small river running through the park and it
was obvious that it was also swollen after all the rain. We were well
and truly up on high ground so we weren't at all concerned about any
further rain.
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| The bridge at Bulahdelah where we stopped for lunch |
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| Crossing the main bridge at Forster |
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| Another narrow and rickety old bridge |
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| And yet another swollen river |
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| A huge dump truck on the overpass on the way to Broke |
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| Our campsite in McNamara Park |
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