Brunswick Heads NSW / Karuah NSW / Canberra ACT September 2017

Sorry been a bit slack.

We moved from Biggara Waters to Brunswick Heads, which is only 100km away and just up the road from Byron Bay. The park is an older park which runs alongside Simpsons Creek. We went for a riverside spot even at $70+ a night, but it was delightful. River chock-full of fish right at the back door, beach about 200m away, nice range of cafes and shops and of course the Brunswick Hotel even closer than that. Judy caught fish, I beach-walked, we wandered down to Byron and then back up through the hinterland and Mullumbimby. Pretty relaxing all round

The people in the van next to us were friendly, I even socialised and fixed his battery charger for him as a bonus. The last night we went to the Hotel, where they Rock and Roll Bingo, which is a set of bingo like cards with song names on them, and as they play the songs you cross them off your card, five in a row and you win $50! We had a meal of oysters and antipasto and chips and a 'few' glasses of wine, to oil our vocal chords, of course.

That's them. The actual Brunswick Heads, which is just two breakwater walls really. Brunswick Heads NSW

Byron Bay is over crowded to blazes and I can't imagine what anyone sees in it. Pay parking everywhere and the Lighthouse wants $8 just to drive through! But we found an overlooked gem in a beach called The Pass, where we had a pretty cheap and delicious lunch. There is a big rock at the end of the beach, up which they have built a staircase and a lookout on top. A must do, really.

The Pass beach. Byron Bay NSW

Other side of The Pass beach. Byron Bay NSW

From Brunswick Heads, we had a very long day in the car driving down to Karuah: Eight hours and fifteen minutes to cover 580 km. We ran into the longest stretch of roadwork in Australia, runs from Ballina to Woolgoolga and is costing 4.3 billion bucks, something like 150km of it, maximum speed 80kph

Oh well, it will be fabulous when its done.

Karuah is just an over-nighter but very pleasant as always, Judy had a last go at fishing and pulled in a whiting and a flathead, but only babies and back they went.

Another transport day, leaving at 8am and into the top of Sydney in 2 hours, another hour before you pop out the bottom of the M7 and then 2 hours to Sutton Forrest, which apart from Pheasants Nest, is the first place to stop and get a feed and relax for a while. another 1 and-a-half hours sees us backing up the driveway and wondering where the two months had gone!

See you next time - big one being planned!