SATURDAY MORNING we decided to go to Kempsey. The last time Chris and I had stopped in Kempsey, it was evening, we grabbed a room at the only motel we could find, and headed to the RSL looking for something to eat.
The RSL's bistro had just closed, but they had one last pizza, sliced salami, and already cold and pretty greasy. But nothing else was open, so that was what we had to content ourselves with. Perhaps things have changed in 30 years...
Our first stop was at the information centre. There was also a quite magnificent toilet block there. We had some intention to avail ourselves of the facility when a tour bus pulled in and people poured out -- a seniors' tour on their way home to Queensland after having been as far as Sydney before the bungee reached its limit.
Well, eventually we got there... Meanwhile we had some morning tea on the picnic tables.
Next we went to the information centre (see picture at top), a Glenn Murcutt design, as will be obvious to anyone who knows of his use of corrugated iron.
The centre contains an aboriginal art gallery as well, so we went in and had a look around. Beautiful work, but a bit outside our holiday budget.
So we drove quickly around the town, then headed back to the lookout just off the highway. These views are from the lookout. The first settler in the district built his home on the site now occupied by this lookout.
We next drove out to Crescent Head for a pleasant lunch in the Bowling Club. I took a few photographs here as we drove around the town, and we drove a couple of kilometres out of town, but then returned to Port Macquarie. After all the dirt roads on our way to Ellensborough Falls, we were not keen to spend a lot of time on similar thoroughfares this soon.
The bird on the fence rail was just cute; the shot of the beach was taken from near a lookout above the golf greens.We looked around town for eateries, and the club was probably the best place we spotted.
Along the way back, we stopped into Ronaldo's Tomatoes, but it was too late for us to go and pick strawberries, which had been our intention. These two rural photographs were taken at Ronaldo's, and show the tubes in which strawberries are grown hydroponically.
The final shot is of the roadway out of Ronaldo's, heading back towards the Princes Highway.
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