Onwards to Coffs Harbour

We managed to have dinner at the RSL without getting wet but had only just got back on board when the heavens opened. It rained heavily from then on so any thoughts of leaving early the next morning for Coffs Harbour evaporated quickly.

The next morning we decided to go for a long walk along the other side of the river to Dunbogan, a small village on the way to Camden Head at the mouth of the river. The one thing that really strikes you about this area is the abundance of pelicans and how comfortable life is here for them They will perch on anything as you can see from this photo, and regularly frequent the many fish cleaning tables along the river bank, getting a free feed.

After flathead and chips at the fisherman's co-op for lunch, we walked around town and got a few essentials and returned to the boat to ready ourselves for the trip north to Coffs Harbour in the morning.

We weighed anchor at 5 am and were underway by 5.15am heading out of the river, once again in the dark. Not all of the marker buoy lights were functioning, but fortunately we could follow the GPS track from our trip in and the radar picked up the unlit buoys anyway.

There was very little wind and for most of the trip it was right behind us, so we motor sailed all of the way against a steady 1 knot southerly current.

We had the usual whale and dolphin sightings, all though not as frequent as the previous days.

We arrived at Coffs in the dark at 6.30pm. And were tied up in the marina by 7pm ready for a well earned drink.

Morning of 25th it is a beautiful sunny day in Coffs, last time we were here it was blowing a gale.