Friday 6th December - Woolgoolga to Macksville
A cool 15 degrees last night but a warm 34.3 today. We're off to Macksville today. Lots of one night stop overs for most of next week until we get to Bateau Bay where we will spend five nights. We're staying at the Nambucca River Tourist Park. The other side of the road is the Nambucca River and they also have a boat ramp and jetty here if you fancy a bit of fishing. We are on the new highway ad went through Coffs Harbour on the way. A moving phot of the Big Banana as it's pretty hot outside of the car. The drive to Macksville took just over an hour and it's going to be a scorcher all over the country today, not just where we are. Lots of bushfires still out of control in NSW. We got here and it was 34 degrees. I sit in the car with the AC running while Clive gets the van connected upto power. He then goes inside and turns the van AC on, so that I can go in there and keep reasonably cool. This van AC is lovely. Not much to do here so we read most of the day. There is a gold course down behind us, attached to the van park and you can hire clubs it you fancy a hit. The park for the tourists is well away from the main park where all the cabins and permanents live. Still not too many people here yet, so it could be a quiet night. OOPS…we've parked in the wrong spot. We were supposed to be in number 7, but have ended up in number 10. Not to worry as there is plenty of room. So glad we ended up here and we would have had three vans close to us that came in during the day. One was a big motorhome towing a car and they left at 6.30am the next day. We've stayed hitched up tonight. A bit of a cool change came through about 5pm. Outside is really smoky and the moon looks to be a bright red, presumably because of all the smoke from the bushfires.