Of course though, it had to rain. We left our home with a blue sky finally starting to show. Drove for 2 and a half hours without hitting rain, before our little miss woke up and demanded out. We stopped at Coffs Harbour and drove down to the Jetty as Chris had never been there. Went for a short walk and there were whales jumping! Amazing!! And I didn't even have a camera. Chris finally got to see some whales, not that he seemed to fazed by it all anyway. Lily seemed to find every single puddle to jump and dance in, and was not happy when we decided it was time to go. We stopped several times before getting to our destination of Hat Head Holiday Park.
Nothing too special about the camp ground itself, but it was situated on a creek and a beach! The grey clouds were starting to loom, so after Lily had a massive run around loving all that the outdoor had to bring, we quickly set up camp. After setting up camp, we were feeling quite lazy, so we went to the bowlo for some dinner and a drink, which just happened to be about 50m from our camp site.
The first night it rained and thundered, and had flashes of lightning throughout the night (at least it waited for us to go to bed though). After Lily went down really easily, she woke up in the night several times (not unusual) but one time just seemed freaked and would not calm down. Ended up having to get the laptop with her In the Night Garden DVD going to calm down. And after watching an episode and saying good bye to them she rolled over and went to sleep. PHEW! Tents don't offer any sound protection, so I was so scared that she may have woken up the whole camp.. which is probably why the camp ground managers put us so far away from everyone (but right next to the beach).
I woke to a knocking noise. My friends were coming up from Sydney to meet us, and I thought that they had miraculously turned up early and were trying to let us know they were here by knocking on the table. I woke up Chris who just told me I was crazy and went back to sleep. I fished out my phone and they were definitely not any where near by so I tried to go back to sleep, which is almost impossible in a tent. So I got up, and what a mess!!!! We had put our gazebo down to its shortest setting to ensure our things would stay dry if it rained, but we never thought of this. Our food was every where. All the food I had brought that wasn't cold. The birds had come in and pecked their way through everything. ARGH! Now I know what the knocking was.
After cleaning up the mess, and having a shower, we headed out and grabbed some food for breakfast. A burger with the lot was Chris' choice. Only one place really to get food from for breakfast, but they did have an awesome vanilla milkshake.
Since it was still raining, we decided to just drive around. We went and explored the Hat Head National Park, and saw another whale at the Gap. Took Terry off road for the first time, which was a little exciting. Checked out the Hat Head National Park camping grounds, which had some Kangaroos camping there too. On the way out we saw a track and started to drive down it, but got a call from my friends to say they were almost at the campground, so we turned around at our first chance and headed back. Guess that will be an adventure for next time.
After cooking up some nachos for lunch, we went for a drive looking for something to cook for dinner while it still rained. We ended up having to drive out of town, where we found a little store that had enough selection to get the ingredients to make Beef Strognoff (sp) with Potato and Kumera (sweet potato) mash. By the time we prepared it all, the rain had lifted, so my friends and Chris went for a fish while I waited for Lily to wake. Not long after they left the sun shone through the clouds and it was beautiful! This place is sooo pretty with the sun shining on everything.
After a non successful fishing adventure, and a wander, we headed back for dinner and tried to get a campfire going. After getting some flames going it slowly fizzed out. So after dinner we went down to the bowlo and had a drink and watched the end of the rugby. There was a party there with lots of people dressed up as things starting with the first letter of their name (apparently). Lily was scared of most of the men, in particular one dressed as Santa, and one dressed as Mary (as in Jesus' mum).
I totally recommend going there if you are in to the beach and camping. Next time we are going to camp closer to the amenties though.
And just to prove I was there, here is a really bad photo of me (and Chris). I really need to get some new sunnies.
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