Tuesday 1st July - Half Way Creek - Tomago Bowling Club

Woke to a freezing morning with the van as well as the car covered in ice.  Maree shared a nice warm loaf of bread for brekkie and then it was down to Coffs Harbour to try and find a new caravan battery.  8.30am and it is a lovely sunny morning with not a cloud in the sky.  I think we may have been quite high up a mountain last night for it to have been so cold and icey during the night - 0 degrees...........brrrrr  The scenery is now changing as we travel down towards Coffs Harbour, lots of banana plantations and not so much sugar. MT by the beautiful Kalang River at Urunga, lots of pelicans sunning themselves and a great spot for a free camp.  Urunga has been put onto my list of places to travel back to, absolutely beautiful and a caravan park that overlooks the water, so good. Pulled of the freeway at Wauchope beside the Hastings River under the bridge for our lunch stop and once again Pelicans gliding past just for Maree. A very bumpy and rough 10kms back down towards Taree before hitting the highway once again. Plan on stopping at Tomago Bowling Club tonight for our free camp, another good spot to get off the road and spend the night on our way down to Sydney. We have just gotten the caravan battery fixed and now the gas fitting at the front of the caravan decides to leak, so now there is no gas so no fridge or hot water for the night.  Lucky we are on our way home.....!!!!!  Maree & Paul's gas regulator has also decided it is going to leak so we are both in the same boat..