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1999 Travels February 15

MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY     WOOLGOOLGA

Blue sky and sunshine today. This is so good, after the lousy weather we have mostly had on the coast. The tops of John’s feet actually got sunburned, yesterday, on our walk.

After a late breakfast, we drove into Coffs Harbour. Found a Westpac Bank and paid the truck registration – $410 – ouch!

John went to the bowls shop and bought me a bowls measuring tape. I am not really sure I need one, though. He is certainly investing in me playing the game.

I bought a new photo album. We got some car stuff (a grease gun, etc). Got some groceries.

Stopped at the Big Banana. Neither of us was interested in doing the tourist thing at this attraction, but John wanted bananas! He bought three kilos at a satisfactorily cheap price.

On the drive back, we visited the Lake Russell Gallery in the Emerald Beach area. We discovered this on one of our previous school holiday camping trips here. Browsed for an hour or so. They still have great items, though there was nothing that “grabbed” me quite as much as a painting with cockatoos in it, that I once saw here and still regret not buying.

Drove to Moonee Beach to go for a walk on the headland there. It was hard to find the old path that we used to walk, when we camped here, through people-high grass, so the walk was not as enjoyable was we thought it would be. Eventually reached the headland and sat and watched the waves for a while. They are still big. We found an easier route to walk back, over the rocks. John is now having doubts about moving to Moonee to camp – too many people are commenting on the nasty sandflies there. But it is a beautiful spot, albeit with less for me to do while he bowls – it does not have the beach access, or shops, of Woolgoolga.

We had a late lunch again – 4pm! I only had some fruit, as I have run out of bread – really effective grocery shopping on my part!

Tea was soup, a vegie stir fry and mango to finish. The herby tomato soup has been really nice. There is enough stir fry left over to do for tomorrow’s tea too.

My face is sunburnt. I have a strong headache – too much sun? That would be rather ironic! Maybe I am a little dehydrated?

We watched some TV.

John was up very late, again, playing computer games.


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1999 Travels February 12

FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY     WOOLGOOLGA

I went for a walk to the shops, while John slept in. Put a roll of film in for processing. Found out that the shop takes passport photos and that the Post Office does passport processing. All solved!

After breakfast I went back to the shops and had the photos done.

We drove to Coffs Harbour – to shop, and so John could – yet again – check out bowls. It was raining, but a pleasant drive.

On the way, we detoured to go look at Moonee Beach – John really loves the outlook from there – we have spent some school holidays camping there. We might come here for a week, after Woolgoolga.

In Coffs, bought groceries. We didn’t linger, because of the bowls this afternoon.

It was teeming rain as we drove back to camp. Ho hum! John phoned the bowls club – the game was cancelled. So too, we heard on the radio, was the second cricket final in Melbourne!

After lunch, I took all the passport stuff to the Post Office and got it all done. One less thing to worry about. I also checked our bank account levels at the bank branch here; our account is beginning to climb back into some health, but another month of restraint is needed.

We managed a walk on the beach, for an hour, but got a bit damp, though, from rain showers. There were great heaps of large, strappy seaweed on the beach.

Tea was barley soup, flake cutlets, potato slices, salad, mango.

The Carlton pre-season game was on TV, late, and John watched that, then was on the computer until well after midnight.

News has filtered in today, that a cyclone – Rona – crossed the coast last night, in the Mossman/Cow Bay area. It seems to have been rather unexpected – one of those systems that is out to sea then suddenly changes course – it rapidly became a Category 3 apparently. So there was little warning. There is much flooding in Cairns, with the Lake Placid and Caravonica areas evacuated, due to the Barron River flooding. The rainforest around Cow Bay has been badly affected. I guess Wonga Beach would have suffered too. There was about a one metre storm surge in those parts – T’s great fear! A lot of sugar cane has been destroyed. The system continued on to the Tablelands, dumping a lot of rain. I wonder whether the sisters J and L are still happy about their decision to see out the summer at Atherton?