Friday, October 17, 2008

The Long And Winding Road to Sydney....

We left Coffs Harbour early Wednesday morning, after a finally discovering the reason for the lack of accomodation upon our arrival. Apparently there was some 'police/fire' interstate games, from surfing to sevens, netball to bowls. Probably explains the number of people walking around wearing police sports kit, and the rocketing crime rates in NSW, Queensland and Victoria this week...

We drove to a tourist beachside town called Forster-Tuncurry, and headed for the YHA. We rang the doorbell, no one answered. No one came. The place looked like it had recently experienced some kind of Chernobyl-esque disaster, we wandered around to see clothes still hanging from the lines, but no one had been there for some time. All very unsettling...

So we continued down the coast to Seal Rocks, an idyllic little beach camp, and dined in the supreme Pacific Palms bowling club (it was the only place still open for MILES). The food was great and we got take out beers for the beach later that night, when in Rome.....

Next stop - Sydney, 268kms.

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