Monthly Archives: August 2014

The road from Armidale back to Coffs Harbour is called the Waterfall Way so today’s plan was to see what they were talking about. The expectations were not particularly high as the countryside around here is quite dry and brown, … Continue reading →

Today it’s time to leave the coast and head inland away from the rain, our destination today is the New England National Park. We stopped in Grafton for fuel and supplies, we found a nice shopping centre on the north … Continue reading →

On this side of the Clarence river was a small town of Iluka, mostly holiday homes, many of the towns on the NSW north and central coast are holiday and fishing destinations. From Iluka we went back to the Pacific … Continue reading →

The sun is shining and it’s time to leave Byron Bay, we headed south along the coast and stopped at Evans Heads for lunch. We had bought some Chinese takeaway and headed down to the estuary to find a table … Continue reading →

The rain was still falling so we had a leisurely breakfast and read our books, later that night I checked the weather information and Byron Bay had 50 mm over that day and a half. By lunch time I was … Continue reading →

It rained most of the night and was still raining off and on when we got up. It market day in Byron Bay and we had heard that it was pretty big. As we found a parking spot there was … Continue reading →

Today we left the Border Ranges and headed to Byron Bay. We arrived just after lunch, set up camp and got stuck into the washing. The forecast was for rain for the next 7 days so it was important to get … Continue reading →

After an hour or so of discussing photography and cameras with our neighbours, John & Marie, we finally headed off to explore the Border Ranges National Park. There was one waterfall, Brushbox Falls, near the campsite so we headed there … Continue reading →

Packing up today was more interesting than usual; we had a visit from a 3 mtr carpet python. First, I nearly stepped on it as it slid pass the tent, then it coiled itself in the sun just 1 mtr … Continue reading →

We woke this morning to our coldest morning so far, our thermometer was showing 0.4oC when I got out of bed and there was ice over the tent and car. It took a while but we finally left camp to … Continue reading →