{"id":293,"date":"2020-06-10T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T08:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2020-12-30T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T03:15:31","slug":"nsw-trip-continued-back-on-the-road-8-10-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/nsw-trip-continued-back-on-the-road-8-10-june\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Trip continued: Back on the road! 8-10 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Well, the parks are open, camping is permitted once again (and petrol is cheap!!) so we left home, which although we love it, has really been our prison for the last 2+ months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday 8 June Crescent Head<br><\/strong>We set off Monday morning and headed north, arriving at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aussietowns.com.au\/town\/crescent-head-nsw\">Crescent Head<\/a> around 4 pm. Our site proved the perfect spot to watch a fabulous sky with sunset around 5.15 pm. Geri &amp; Michael were not that far behind us, and we enjoyed the view together, as they set up camp beside us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fivesies and dinner in our annexe which was nice and cozy, and lit with our camping lanterns. We also brought our little heater so that if needed, we can use it in here when we have a power site. It&#8217;s a handy room to dry wet clothes..!<br><br>We still love our van, even though we were unable to take our bikes with us as we are still waiting for the dealer to assess and potentially fix the rack on the back &#8211; booked in for 29th June&#8230; 3.5months lead time (not happy about that of course)! Anyway, this three-week trip will just be without the bikes and seeing as the forecast is for plenty of rain, we may not miss them that much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-08-at-9.29.44-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-08-at-9.29.44-PM.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-08-at-9.29.44-PM-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-08-at-9.29.44-PM-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Awesome first sunset from our site &#8211; credit photo: Geri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Tuesday 9 June Crescent Head<\/strong><br>We started with a lovely little walk around the area of the caravan park; it is a gorgeous place surrounded by hills, surf and a very long beach shaped like a crescent.  There is also an interesting golf course against quite a long steep beautiful green hill which provides sensational views<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather gave us sun in the morning and off and on showers with a pleasant enough temperature. We did various walks during the day, had an ordinary lunch at the local club, and again drinks and dinner at ours. Unfortunately no pretty sunset today&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200609_103355-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"305\" data-link=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=305\" class=\"wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200609_103355-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200609_103355-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200609_103355-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200609_103355-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200609_103355-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200609_103355.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">at the campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/View-from-the-top1-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/View-from-the-top1-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/View-from-the-top1-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/View-from-the-top1-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/View-from-the-top1-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/View-from-the-top1-1-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/View-from-the-top1-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>View from the top of the hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_8755-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_8755-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_8755-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_8755-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_8755-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_8755-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>View from the hill<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01127-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01127-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01127-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01127-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01127-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01127-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01127.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Crescent Head Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday 10 June<\/strong><br>Today we went for a drive northbound headed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au\/things-to-do\/historic-buildings-places\/smoky-cape-lighthouse\">Smoky Cape Lighthouse<\/a>, hoping to also see a glimpse of a humpback, which have already been sighted this season. No such luck. On to South West Rocks, where we had a really good lunch at the town pub and wandered around a bit. From there we turned back, and visited Trial Bay Gaol, which was an interesting piece of history &#8211; it was built as an experiment where inmates in the last quarter of 19th century spent 17 years building a breakwater, to provide a safe harbour. The project failed miserably and only about 20% was completed, but it sure kept the prisoners busy and really not a bad place to be incarcerated!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Light-house-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Light-house-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Light-house-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Light-house-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Light-house-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Light-house-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Light-house.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01141-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01141-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01141-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01141-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01141-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01141-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01141.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01142-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01142-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01142-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01142-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01142-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01142-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01142.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It stayed mostly dry, cloudy and with a breeze today, with a balmy temperature of 18-20\u00b0C.&nbsp; We did not see the sun at all, so I don&#8217;t hold much hope for a pretty sunset&#8230; Tomorrow morning we pack up to head a little further north to Bellinger River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01151-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01151-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01151-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01151-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01151-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01151-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DSC01151.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Current inmates at Trial Bay Gaol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/day-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/day-1.jpg 687w, https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/day-1-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the parks are open, camping is permitted once again (and petrol <a href=\"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/nsw-trip-continued-back-on-the-road-8-10-june\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nsw-north-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}