We have spent two days in Gosford with friends, thanks to Fi and Bid for their generous hospitality. We have enjoyed catching up friends who we have been unable to see due to distance and work commitments, the latter no longer being an impediment.

Big rains are forecasted, in the land of drought and flooding rains. We manage to time our starts and breaks and route to weave around rain cells, and we see only a little bit of rain as we travel south. There are a few delays due to road damage and flooded paddocks are evident everywhere.

We stop at Nowra and have morning tea at a wonderful bakery called Decadence, the snacks were divine. A little detour around Jervis Bay area and out to Currarong Beach to see a lighthouse, unfortunately it is closed to the public for some undisclosed reason.

It’s then onto Batemans Bay for a quick lunch, this is a pretty spot but with the storms around it is blowing a gale so we move on. Nice wildflowers are out, native cherries, the last photo, I use to eat when I was at my primary school, it was surrounded by bushland similar to here.

Reaching Bermagui in the late afternoon, it’s dinner at the hotel with drinks on the porch watching a cloudy sunset and choppy seas over the bay but spirits warm the heart. As we walk up the main street we watch the local girls and lads enjoying their aussie football training together. Once the sport was the domain of males with bad mullet haircuts. So many positive changes in one life time, so good to see.