Sunday April 27, 2014

It was a lovely sunrise this morning.

We stopped at this lookout and spotted this storm cloud, I am not sure this photo really shows the depth of the storm cell, but it was a long way out and we figured it would stay behind us.

The road was undulating for the first part and then became hillier as we got into the outskirts of Port Macquarie and even hillier when we got into Port Macquarie.  Next week-end they are holding an Ironman competition in this area.  Those guys are nuts!  It starts with a 2 or 3km swim followed by a 185 km bike ride followed by a full marathon road race.  I will stick to my round the world bicycle trip a much saner thing to do.

This area must be the area for “Big Things”.  We passed the big bowling ball today, but didn’t stop to take a photo as I thought it was just to advertise the lawn bowling club.  I only found out that it was another “Big Thing” when I googled the “Big Axe”.  I will have to pay more attention to the “Big things”.

We arrived in Port Macquarie at around 10:30 and sat down for a second breakfast.  We knew we had about 40 ks to go to get to Kempsey and needed the extra energy:)  As we sat down to eat, the storm cell that we had taken a photo of earlier arrived in Port Macquarie and the heavens opened.  It poured and continued to pour for the next hour.  As I have said before Ralf and I are not made of sugar, but we really don’t like riding in the rain and this was straight down soaking rain.  We sat it out for a bit and then decided that Port Macquarie looked to be a nice place to stay for the night and we booked into a YHA.