Despite another night of heavy showers the morning was fine again. Trev and I went for an early morning swim – the water was amazingly warm!

After brekkie we went into Minnie Water aiming to have a swim there – it looked cleaner than our front beach at the camp, but we decided to check out Wooli as a lady in a shop in Yamba had told Rosie it was beautiful…

Wooli was only 15 mins away, so we drove there for a look. It was a funny little town with very narrow higgledy-piggledy pot holed streets

The beach was very eroded and had a lot of seaweed on it so we continued on to the Wooli break wall where the water was rushing out against the incoming tide. The water was very murky and brown again due to all the flooding and runoff. We could see across the lake the big sand hill collapses and water pouring out from the side of the cliff….

The area I am sure is probable very picturesque normally, but the flooding and erosion has taken its toll…

We decided to head back to Minnie Water and grab some lunch and coffee from the general store there. The pies were outstanding – home made on the premises – we had beef, tooheys and vege pies – YUM – for lunch.

After lunch we swam at Minnie Water main beach – the water again was lovely and warm and fairly clean. The area had a reef that creates a lagoon where a lot of fishos put their boats out into and fish there – we walked along the beach for a look. One of the friendly locals told Rosie about a beach further around with lots of shells so we thought we may go back there tomorrow….

At the campground there was a beach access point for vehicles as you were allowed to drive on the beach north to Sandon so we did an afternoon drive up the beach.

The Pearl was in her element and Rosie worked the camera well…

Dave did a purposeful photobomb – unlike his usual unintended ones…..

But back at camp Branch was working mischief in the Wells van fridge…. Seems it was refusing to work on gas – fortunately they had their backup Waeco in the Pearl, and the holiday was almost over…. so, they could manage without it – although the ice-cream was very soft and ended up in the Loveday freezer much to Trev’s delight…. Dave was not worried as it was not his favourite Spearmint Choc Chip!!

Another night by the fire…..