Gismo Queen and her King

Burril Lake to Twelve Mile Creek - Saturday 27 May 2023

It turns out that New South Welshmen like to take weekends away - within a couple of hours of Sydney; in caravan park cabins.  My plan of a night at Nelson Bay on the spit, watching the sea, or at the very least, the waterways that snake inland from there was thwarted by said New South Welshmen. So we're in a cabin in a motorhome park on the highway - enough said.

Morning cuppas in bed from the caravan coffee machine almost made it feel like we were in the van. We had breakfast sorted, the cabin cleaned and we were packed and on the road before 9:30am. The first hour or so of driving was pleasant enough through small towns and valleys, past hills and with occasional glimpses of the sea. We turned off to Kiama for elevenses - my goodness is that place busy on a Saturday morning! The market was on, the sun was shining, there was not a carpark to be had and not to mention the queue for coffee. Mental note - don't bring the caravan into Kiama on a Saturday morning. We got our coffee and treat but even the road out to the blowhole was lined with cars so I took it as a given that it was a good thing I had seen it before and we headed back to the highway.

It was freeway and motorway all the way after that, so incredibly boring driving. The plan had been to widely skirt Sydney so we didn't have to drive through which worked well - on said freeways, motorways and through a really long tunnel. And incredibly, no service centre for well over 200km of our trip. Out the other side of Sydney, I was about to turn into Gosford to stop for fuel when I saw a sign for a service centre so kept going. Lunch was a quick (late) bite to eat there which was when I discovered the lack of accommodation. It turns out winging your holidays also doesn't work so well on weekends.

Anyway, we got a perfectly comfortable cabin here at Twelve Mile Creek. I went for a walk after unpacking which was good to stretch the legs - and most importantly, back! - after so many days/hours of driving and we settled in for a cosy home cooked meal.

posted by Tracey @ 8:07 pm