Southbound towards Sydney

October 7-9
Southbound towards Sydney
We left the beautiful Stradbroke islands today and Runaway Bay. We packed the car with care to get everything in and thought we were in the clear when Tracie decided we needed to go shopping. We managed to stock up on school supplies and Booze and a few other less important necessities before making our way south to Sydney for the World Master Games. We have already travelled a huge numbe of kilometres and we only had 900Kms to Sydney. (A short walk in the park really). We stopped in Yamba for lunch which is a quaint little town with a custom pie shop and a Canmore like main street. The pie shop was great however as soon as we began to eat them outside on the patio we were swarmed by hundred if not thousands of flies. Stan immediately put on his Chinese accent that he learned from Dick Yee and kept asking us if we ordered Fwies with our meals.( funny if you know stan).
Stan has been assigned to be the chief navigator and will look at every possible highway and navigational angle to get from one point to another. He had us guessing and second guessing and even contemplating retracing our route at times but in the end he would save the day with a key navigational zinger every half hour. Let’s just say that my method of following the main highway is not preferred as we have seen places that few would venture. Tracie decided to have us stay the first night in Port McQuarrie, where the first major prisons were established in Australia. It is a port with amazing beaches, great vistas, lots of activity and above all it had the Koala Hospital which was a must see on 5 of the 7 peoples lists.