Via the Pacific Highway we travelled to the Great Lakes area and the Wallamba River Holiday Park, the best park we have been in to date. Lots of concrete, wide open areas to negotiate, the best equipped camp kitchen ever seen including 180 cm flat screen TV, all the equipment you could want, grante top benches,cookers,fridges, lounges, gas heater, situated beside the Wallamba River.
On the Sunday we watched kayak races on the river together with Tom and Cecille (she is mother to 9 children)
The weather has been fairly wet, nevertheless on Tuesday we took the tourist drive through Taree on to Wingham, saw the remains of the hotel which had burned in a $2 million fire the night before. On to Tinonee on the Manning River and saw the remains of the wharf to which the tall sailing ships offloaded passengers and supplies until the late 1930s . Took some lovely photos of the Manning River and the hills and valleys around there.
Wednesday we sheltered from the rains.
Thursday we took off determined not to be put off by the rain, drove round and looked at some of the nice homes at Forster then Cape Hawk Lookout, down to Greens Point entertained by the antics of the pelicans chasing fish around the moored boats.
Continuing on Lakes Way to Seal Rocks took photos of water surging in the blowholes, climbed up to Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse and spent time watching the whales gamboling in the ocean, returning via Wootton, cattle farms on very spectacular rolling hills and valleys, stopping at Nabiac for pies for lunch, then back to the IlaJ amid threatening skies.