October 19th, Arrived at Trail-a-Van at 7am and sat in the car while Rod, the boss, fitted our decals and after admiring the finished job, only 30 minutes later, we headed directly for Brisbane and booked into Brisbane Gateway Resort, at Rochedale, for 2 nights. Just as I was going to open the Van door, I noticed that one of the gold stripes was missing. I couldn’t believe that Rod and myself has admired the finished job and that we didn’t notice the missing decal. I rang them to tell them of the problem and followed that up with an email and photo of the area in question and asked them to send the missing decal to Cardiff and I will fit it myself. After an afternoon nap, we went to Brian & Julies for a BBQ and family catch up.
October 20th, I rang Nerida & Rob, caravanning friends that we met in WA a few years back, and arranged to meet for lunch at the Redland Bay Hotel. After a nice lunch and a catch up, we went to Brian & Julies. It was our shout for a takeaway Chinese dinner and then I cleaned them up at a game of Tiles (Rummycube). Tomorrow we leave for Coffs Harbour.
October 21st, Drove to Coffs Harbour, after putting clocks forward 1 hour for NSW daylight savings, and booked into Park Beach Holiday Park for 2 nights. When setting up the Van, I found the power switch was broken, we only had 240V power, so no lights or TV as lights and aerial booster are on 12V. We had a quiet night doing crosswords, reading and cross stitch.
October 22nd, After buying a $19 replacement switch, I installed the new switch and was back to normal power supply for the Van. After lunch I went to the Coffs Harbour Over 50’s table Tennis Club and enjoyed playing with my old friends. Tomorrow we head for Foster/Tuncurry for a 2 night stay before heading for Sydney.
October 23rd, left Coffs Harbour and had a great run down the coast. It was still early when we reached the turnoff to Tuncurry, so we kept driving and eventually pulled into Karuah and booked into the Big4 for 2 nights. We walked around the Park and decided that this would be a good spot to spend some time, when next up this way. It’s on the River and there are places to tie up the tinnie near the jetty. The locals told me they are catching flathead up near the road bridge.
October 24th, After a quiet day we went to the Karuah RSL Club for dinner and Val played Bingo at 7pm. She won a $10 club voucher on the first game. The Club had been completely renovated since we were there last and we were very impressed. The meals were very good.
October 25th, Arrived at Sydney Gateway Holiday Park to find out that it had new owners. The NRMA took an offer “too good to refuse” and the old managers have moved to another Park down the coast. At 4.30pm I dropped Val off at Greg & Dianne’s house and went to pick up Jessica and Annaliese from School. The girls were excited to see me and I couldn’t believe how much Jessica had grown. It was good to catch up with Greg, Dianne and the girls. We bought Chinese for dinner, which was very enjoyable.
October 26th, We met up with Steven and Nikos at the Duck Inn (which is a Pub) at Chippendale, for Dinner. It took us 1½ hours to drive from the Caravan Park to the Pub, the traffic was horrific. We had a great meal and catch up and then drove Steven home, to Balmain. We went in for coffee and caught up with Margaret, before heading home.
October 27th, After picking the girls up from School we went to Greg & Dianne’s and Val made Lasagne and salad for dinner. It was delicious and we followed that with Mulberry and Apple Pie with custard, Wow!
October 28th, Dianne got me a great deal on 2 tyres for the Territory, from Jax Tyres at Blacktown. I had been putting this off for some time now, but the back tyres were badly worn on the inside edges. I picked Jess and Annie up and brought them back to the Caravan Park for a swim and some playtime on the jumping pillow. Greg and Dianne came over after work and we all enjoyed Val’s Stroganoff and rice, followed by rice custard and rhubarb. We finished off a great night with Greg and myself playing Table tennis with the girls. We leave for Dunleith Caravan Park at The Entrance in the morning.
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