We spent all of Sunday and most of Monday morning packing
up our worldly possessions, chucking out the un-travel-worthy stuff and
cleaning up the unit we’ve been renting.
Even though we haven’t really bought that much over the
past 2 years, it is amazing the amount of “stuff” you accumulate – especially
papers!!!!! Grrrrr.
Anyhoo, Dave (the Tetris master) packed it all away in
the camper trailer and the car and we set off about 12pm (QLD time) on Monday
for our first stop – Minnie Waters.
We arrived about 5:30pm (NSW time), thankfully it was
still quite light and we set up the camper trailer with no fighting despite the
exhaustion!! (maybe with a little bit of
niggle, but I thought we were very well behaved).
We love our Camper Trailer (Cub Camper Brumby), it is so
easy to tow and nowhere near as stressful as the caravan was, especially when
trying to reverse it into a spot and unhitch.
There is not as much room or storage space, but we didn’t use half the
stuff we brought with us in the caravan and I think we’ll probably end up
getting rid of some more superfluous stuff in the future anyway.
The bed is really comfortable and the pull out kitchen is
great. Tetris master strikes again with organising the dry goods into the
kitchen compartments (he seriously is good at that shit).
Minnie Waters is on the coast of NSW, East of Grafton.
We’re in the one and only caravan park here (easing our way out of civilisation) and it’s in a
lovely bush setting. The Beach is only a 5 minute walk away and there’s not
really a lot of people around (yippee!!). Although, we have had some visitors
walking through our campsite
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| Camp Ground at Minnie Waters Caravan Park |
Wooli is the next town down from Minnie Waters and is a
little bit bigger, we had a visit and spent some time at the mouth of the
river, Dave fishing and me walking in the water watching the little fish swim
past. The tide was on it’s way in and it was cool watching the new water come
in, it was beautifully clear and there were pockets of warm and cool water
swirling together (and no, it was not wees you rude people J).
Wednesday we did a day trip and drove into Grafton. We
visited the Regional Gallery, which was in a lovely building surrounding a
courtyard in the middle. There were not only the usual suspects (ie. Paintings)
but also sculptures of varying sizes, video installations and a display of
artwork from the local high school.
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| "sculpture" on the side of the road on the way to Grafton from Minnie Waters. That is a cool Letterbox. |
Just down the road from the Gallery is the Schaeffer
House Museum and the house was built in 1900. It is full of ye olde worlde
stuff from around the region and memorabilia donated by past & present
locals. We were greeted at the door by a very enthusiastic volunteer and she
was lovely, telling us about the history of the house etc. The Antiques Road
Show would have had a field day in that place.
We left Grafton driving through some of the most
beautifully tree lined streets and admiring the old cottages that have been
kept in really good nick. A very pretty place. We drove north from Grafton to
Lawrence and took the Car Ferry across to Woodford Island crossing the Clarence
River. Continuing through Woodford Island we arrived at the Scottish town
MacLean, who have painted their power poles in all different tartans. We
visited their Museum complex, which included a Stone Cottage built in 1889, and
after that we were about done with the smell of old stuff.
Back at the campsite (Thursday) and we’re generally pottering
around and relaxing. Walked along the beach early this morning and require an
afternoon nap due to the excess amount of fresh air.
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