Our next location was at the Crowdy Bay National Park
where we stayed at the Diamond Head campground. This was another great setting
with nice green grass underfoot, views of the close by ocean, a beautiful beach,
and kangaroos grazing around our caravan and a great friendly atmosphere with
many a conversation with other campers.
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| Wild flowers & beaches of Crowdy Bay N.P. |
We spent a day in the company of our eldest son’s, in-laws,
(officially in 3 months) who acted as our tour guides ferrying us around to
view the magnificent scenery of their township at Laurieton. It was such a
beautiful location and for us, clearly obvious why they chose to retire in this
area. And yes we could give this location some serious consideration once we
got to that stage in life as it ticked all of our required boxes. Luckily we
still like the location of our house with its close proximity to all of life’s
essentials.
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| Lookout view of Laurieton with Marion & Greg |
Our last night at Crowdy Bay National Park we experienced
a squally storm and in the morning we were unable to open our door to get
outside as one of the awning roof support bars had dropped down jamming up
against the door preventing us from opening it. There were no neighbours in
sight to call out to for help, so Steve pushed out a window fly screen and
climbed out of the window. Luckily the outside table was under the window. That
was another first for us.
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| Steve escaping out of the window |
Our next stopover was at a caravan park in the township
of Port Macquarie. We walked around the harbour area, viewed the 1884 built
historic St Thomas Church, toured the museum, visited Roto House built in 1891,
investigated the koala hospital, the lighthouse and nearby beaches. Port
Macquarie was in a nice setting but a little too city like for us.
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| Historic Roto House |
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| One of 50 different koala sculptures on display |
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A koala resting up in the Koala Hospital
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