Gismo Queen and her King

Day 24 - Grafton to Brooms Head - Wednesday 22nd May 2024

The waves are crashing just metres from our van, the view of the ocean is uninterrupted, the weather is divine - it really doesn’t get much better than this!

We had a reasonably slow wake up in Grafton. It was so quiet in our free camp that when I woke in the middle of the night, I thought we were still at Andrew’s!! Neill was trying from 8am to ring the caravan park we had our eye on for tonight so he provided regular updates. At about 10ish, we moved across the park to fill up with water, and then headed into South Grafton to do a bit of grocery shopping. We were  back at the vans for elevenses but moved into the sun and it was really starting to warmup. Our last stop was for fuel and then we headed out on the old highway. Driving along with sugarcane on both sides of the road, I did hum to myself the Paul Kelly song “To her door” with the line “riding through the cane” because that’s what we were doing. It was actually a pretty drive with not much traffic so quite pleasant.

We arrived into Brooms Head on lunchtime and found two unpowered sites practically on the beach. Unfortunately one was occupied when we got here so we had to wait for them to move - and I had quite the line up of inpatient cars behind me! Never mind, we got ourselves set up and bought our lunch as a treat from the Snack Shack just 20m from our site. We really enjoyed that in the sun, listening to and watching the waves crash.

Neill, Jude and I went for a lovely walk along the beach. This is truly a stunning location. Back to camp in time for afternoon tea (with some of our return journey having to be along the path as the tide was coming in) and then I got dinner on, using the camp oven as a slow cooker. It was delicious a few bours later - pork chops with potatoes (and pumpkin!) in a creamy garlic sauce sitting around our campfire. It really doesn’t  get much better than this.

posted by Tracey @ 8:25 pm