4/15/10 (nelson bay)
Nelson Bay – Port Stephens – Parklea
Today tested our limited in all different directions. By the time I went to shower there was hardly any hot water. I guess the site had limited hot water. A semi-cold shower wasn’t a good way for me to start my day. But it was getting warmer as the day went on so it wasn’t so bad.
We drove to Port Stephens and hiked about 30 minutes to the Tomaree Headlands, which had a gorgeous view of the port. It was really stunning. Jon decided to do a time lapse of the bay but had to step over the guardrails to do so. Several kids who walked by asked Jon what he was doing and how he got to the ledge. They were quite fascinated by him. One girl secretly took a picture of him even though she claimed she was taking a picture of the scenery. A boy told Jon that he was going to tell his mom on Jon and that his mom can overpower Jon. Kids can be so funny.
We stopped at a café to grab a drink and Jon noticed there was wireless internet so we hunkered down at a table. Jon was trying to upload the time-lapse video of New Zealand onto our blog but since it was a very big file it took a long time. The video still wasn’t done uploading after two hours so we decided to leave and hopefully finish it at our campsite. Luckily Jon was able to download this week’s episode of Lost.
We wanted to make our way towards the Blue Moutains and were caught right in the middle of rush hour traffic. We hadn’t seen so many cars or been in a traffic jam in the last six weeks. I had misguided him so we had to turn around, which proved to be more difficult than imagined. We ended up driving about 15 minutes past the turn we wanted to make but we did spot a grocery store to pick up some food for dinner. Once we were back on the right road we still couldn’t find the street for the camper park. It was getting pretty dark by now and hard to spot the street signs. We made a turn not realizing it was a T-lane, which meant it was only for buses and there was no way for us to get out of it since it was an express road. There were signs indicating heavy fines and traffic cameras so we were worried we were going to get fined. We finally found the correct street after a few more u-turns. We pulled into our campsite, which turned out to be really well equipped. Luckily the lady at the campsite gave us a number we can call and explain we had gotten onto the T-lane by mistake.
While I made spaghetti in our camper, Jon continued on his quest to finish uploading his video. There was a bit of miscommunication between him and the front desk clerk about the internet and he ended up buying an internet card that we couldn’t use. So we had to buy another type of internet and was finally able to load the video.
It was just one of those days when we miss the convenience of home.
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Reader Comments (7)
Wine, Cheese, Beer and Chocolate sounds like the best day ever!