Day 83. Home 😒

Saturday 7.5.22

Light showers overnight, but it had stopped when we got up, so we were on the road just after 7am.

Welcome back to roadworks,  traffic and humidity. 

Breakfast stop in Coomera to catch up with Rachel, John and the boys.

Cloud is breaking up as we head over the gateway bridge. We haven't encountered any rain today so far.

You know you're nearly home when you see this. We had a couple of light showers between the Sunshine coast and Gympie. 

Today we travelled 525kms taking our total hitched to a tad under 6,000kms. The cruiser clocked up 7,604kms. 

The poor weather played a hand in our being home a few weeks earlier than hoped. This has been our wettest trip but that won't stop us from enjoying many more journeys. 

After a good clean up, a few changes and some home maintenance I'll be plotting and scheming another trip later this year as well as our exciting trip overseas next year.

Day 82. New Italy, NSW.

Friday 6.5.22

Rained overnight. Made things even more soggy.

Short walk around the block before we head off to Kempsey. 

Our first stop was in South Kempsy.

We were going to stop here on the way down but the weather prevented us.

Macleay Valley wildlife photography display.

So many awards. This wasn't all of them.

Started raining again as we left.

Australias' longest bridge at 3.2km long.

Coming into Coffs Harbour. 

Must've been the day for old purple cars. 

The obligatory big things photo and we enjoyed a chocolate coated frozen banana. 

Even more rain as we head back up the coast to the places we visited at the start of our journey. 

We've stopped the night at a rest area behind the museum in New Italy. For a donation you can use the car park and loos. Very much appreciate the asphalt as everywhere else I checked was on grass. No thank you. Our wheels spun in the grass last night. We popped in here once before to use the loos and thought it would be a good place for an overnighter.

Made good use of the break in the rain and wandered around the area.

Today we travelled 443kms, taking our total hitched to 5,429kms.