Our plans for today were to travel south, with a brief stopover in Coffs Harbour to get a chipped windscreen repaired. When we woke this morning we heard rain and thunder and when I checked the weather radar it looked like this:
Anyone who has caravanned will know that hitching up a van and in fact travelling with one in heavy rain while exciting is not much fun - and this looked like heavy rain. So, we went back to bed after postponing the windscreen repair to tomorrow. A little snooze and some breakfast later, the rain had eased somewhat and we decided to hitch up and travel to Coffs, check into a caravan park and then worry about the windscreen the next day. That's when things got interesting. Our friends Jim and Irene phoned to say they were staying in Nambucca Heads some 60 km south of Coffs Harbour with the aim of catching up as we travelled further south. As we approached Coffs, in heavy rain by this time, and only an hour later than our original plan the thought occurred that if we could complete the windscreen sometime today we could then continue on to Nambucca and catch up with our friends. The folks at O'Brien Glass were helpful and fitted us in. There are a few more twists to the story, some of them comical, but suffice to say that against all odds the car was ready at 2 pm and by 3:30 we were set up in the White Albatross Caravan Park with Jim and Irene. The caravan park features its own restaurant and tonight we had a great chance to catch up over pre-dinner drinks and dinner. We will stay here for two nights - forecast for tomorrow is sunny and 25ºC - and then we continue on home. We expect to be home by next weekend.
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