6. Bundjalung NP

We heard that it was very crowded closer to the coastal regions with an influx of people during school holidays. Thus we spent the next week staying at the show grounds of Kyogle and Alstonville where we explored the local regions.

 

A visit to the coastal town of Ballina revealed a great setting which showed why the coastal areas were so busy with school holidays.

 

On a visit to the township of Evans Head, another coastal town in a beautiful setting we saw a sign post publicizing an aviation museum with an F-111 fighter bomber on show, so we followed the signage to the airport.

 

Up close to F - 111 fighter bomber

This turned out to be another great experience where we were able to get up close and touch an   F – 111 plane and read about some of its history as well as viewing some other WWII relics. 

Our next planned destination was to camp in a beach side setting at Bundjalung National Park about 60 kilometres south of Alstonville.

On the morning of our relocation we slept in about an hour longer than normal and then discovered we had lost another hour due to the arrival of day light saving. That wasn’t a good way to begin a moving day. 

We relocated to Black Rock camping ground at Bundjalung National Park. It was a beautiful sunny 30 C and as soon as we had set up camp it was down to the beach for a refreshing swim.

 

Black Rock beach about 200 metres from camp site

We dipped our heads in the ocean a couple of times each day, body surfing the waves and walking for hours along the beach. 

This was such a nice location where we were regularly entertained by the migrating whales frolicking in the water.

 

Evening camp site visitor

We so enjoy time spent at beautiful beach locations when the weather is nice and warm. The only thing missing was not having our boogie boards with us for this trip as we hadn’t been expecting superb beach conditions at this time of the year and had left our boards at home trying to cut back on the amount of gear we were carting around Australia. How silly were we!