Comm Games Getaway, Day 12

After a few days at home to do some shopping and washing, I headed off again. First thing in the morning I threw the food in the fridge and headed off to the Mazda dealer at Tweed Heads so that Blute could get its 30,000 km service. After dropping it off I walked up to Coolangatta for breakfast and coffee before going to sit in the shade to read a book and watch the buses drop off a continuous stream of people for the beach volleyball stadium.

 I wandered back around by the river and got a phone call that the car was ready, so back to the service centre where I paid them some money and headed off. 

The traffic going south on the M1 was pretty good but the highway police were out in full force, there were three cars before the Byron Bay turnoff. I stopped off in Woodburn for lunch from one of the Bakeries and then continued on to Grafton where I turned west on the Gwydir Highway and then turned off onto the old Grafton-Glen Innes road. I followed this until I got to the Buccarumbi Bridge camping area on the Boyd river. 

This has some great little camping spots up on the bank of the river and there was only a few cars already set up, so I found a nice spot and decided to camp for the evening. 

As I arrived there was about 5 or 6 canoes of people just launching and heading off down stream, so I thought it would be a nice quiet evening. Just as I was considering going down to the bridge and going for a swim, a group of about 40 or so people in canoes turned up and started setting up camp. Turns out they were on a trip organized by a Tafe College. Several other people in canoes also turned up and set up camp. Luckily there is a large area and it wasn't crowded or noisy at all. There was lots of people wandering around looking for firewood but it had already been well and truly collected and burned. One enterprising chap got in his kayak with a hatchet and paddled over to the opposite side of the river to bring back a load of wood from over there.

 I had an early dinner and sat around a small fire made with some of the wood I was carrying before going to bed early to write this up and read. 

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