It was time for us to farewell Dave and Rose as they had to return home to Sydney with the imminent  birth of their 4th grandchild.

We waved goodbye then packed up ourselves to head today to Point Plomer for the last 7 days of our holiday – 7 days to relax by the beach before heading home and back to work….

The drive to Point Plomer was via Coffs Harbour to pick up some groceries, a new doorhandle for the van and to visit the dump point.

Point Plomer is located in Limeburner’s Creek National Park just south of Crescent Head. The last 6 km of the road in was unsealed and pretty rough with lots of potholes…but we made it in OK arriving right on the check-in time of 2PM.

There were a few sites available – I was keen on one on the hill opposite the beach with a great view but Trev at first was keener for one further down the back out of the wind. The ranger came up while we were starting to park in Trev’s spot and advised us to go up to the other area as if we get rain the spot Trev had picked was known to get a bit boggy… so back up the hill we went – and the spot we ended up in was the gun spot! Wind was not an issue and the view and closeness to the beach fantastic!!

After setting up and having lunch we went for a long afternoon walk up the beach – it was pretty windy and the surf was blown out but the beach was beautiful!

When we got back there was a shark in the shallows in the front of the campground!! He was about 2m long and quite dark in colour although people seemed to think he was a grey nurse as there was a colony apparently not far away. He swam around for ages in the shallows obviously fishing…

At this time of year on the northern NSW coast the mullet run occurs – there are huge schools of mullet around which obviously attracts other predators…

The sunset over the beach was lovely and we settled in, hopeful for a few good days of warm fine weather and good surf….