The first leg of our journey was always going to be some surfing up the coast, hopefully traveling in a van, which we planned on hiring. After some consideration we looked at some used vans and landed on the "Red Rocket" the 96 model ex postie van. With some roof racks for boards added we were ready to head out. A quaint little van with enough room and comfort for two, life wasn't going to be fast that's for sure.
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| The Red Rocket |
The first night was a very short leg staying at One Mile beach, a failure of our gas stove straight up left us with no heat for dinner, but Cos showed me her camping skills and quickly had a fire going and dinner on.
It dawned on us how only weeks before I had been a manager at a large organisation living in 3 bedroom house with a pool and driving a new car, now I was cooking my dinner on a fire in a car park at the beach and sleeping in an old van.......life is much better now.
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| Ravioli at One Mile Beach |
As we made our way north the surf didn't provide much for us at Light House beach, Seal Rocks, or South West Rocks. The first decent surf was at Crescent Heads which dished up a nice 1ft long Mal wave just in time. Definitely worth a visit and some where I will be back too.
It took us a week to get to Evens Head a journey of only 700kms, pace was high.
Spending the next week in Evens Head with family we had some fun Mal surf day after day, but we are certainly overdue for some bigger waves.
Hopefully there is some due on the weekend..........
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