Enid and David, 38th wedding anniversary, Port Macquarie
Today is our 38th wedding anniversary, and we celebrated it by starting on our travels heading north to Port Macquarie. For the most part the road was excellent four lane highway. I’m happy with the way the motorhome drives, though it isn’t super powerful and when you climb hills in 5th gear it really slows down. And it’s not cheap on fuel as it is getting about 15 l/100 km, which is about what we get with our Yukon at home.
Along the way we saw some interesting signs, one of which warned of Koala’s for the next 6 km. They have overhead “fauna passes” across the highway, about the height of a power pole and going from trees on one side to the othere. They appear to be a cable with some wire mesh looking like a tunnel, maybe 15 cm in diameter. We assumed they are for koala’s to cross over the highway safely. We however have seen almost no wildlife, no kangaroos, no koalas, just lots of very noisy birds.
When we arrived here at Port Macquarie we walked along the breakwall which is made of huge rocks, most of which have been painted with the names and dates of visits, or events like weddings and deaths. Enid said that it reminded her of the signpost village at Watson Lake. There were a number of people surfing, some of them quite good.
After we came back to our motorhome, Enid lay down for a rest, and I walked to the reception desk to see if there was a store like a K-mart close by. I wanted to get some plastic tubs to keep our water hoses in. Today they had some water in them which drained into the hose storage compartment and got it quite wet. With some tubs I should be able to keep that from happening. The receptionist told me there wasn’t a K-Mart, but that there was a Big W and marked it’s location on the map. I totally misinterpreted the distance, and so I set off on foot. It took me over an hour and a half to walk there and back, so it must have been close to 8 km. I did get the tubs, and some strange looks from others as I was walking back carrying them in front of me.
Today wasn’t very sunny, but that also meant it wasn’t too hot. Tonight it is a nice temperature, and you can hear the roar of the ocean surf, and the cicadas in the trees.