TUESDAY 2 MARCH    CRESCENT HEAD

We decided last night that if it was still raining, we would declare it too wet to move on.

When I woke up, it was still raining, so I decided we were definitely staying put, rolled over and had a sleep in. It was that sort of morning – wet and grey and unappealing.

Eventually, I got up and went to the office to pay for an extra day.

A local guy hires out duckboard panels to campers. On an earlier walk we had seen them all stacked up outside a house, and couldn’t quite work it out. Enterprising man, though. He came through the camp ground this morning, with a trailer full, and did a roaring trade! The tent campers next to us were customers – their whole living area is a waterhole. Serves them right for intruding into our site! We have been lucky enough to have selected a site that doesn’t form a pool.

The rain did lessen off through the day.

We drove to Kempsey to do a food stock up. Found the fruit and vegetable prices in Woolworths very expensive. I wondered if there were any competitors at all, in the town? The rain was quite light in Kempsey.

Late in the day, we went for a final walk on the beach – there was hardly any rain by then.

Tea was soup, corn cobs and fruit.