We spent three nights at the Grafton Showgrounds. The area is still recovering from the floods with several houses in the main drag with obvious flood damage and the Showgrounds themselves were in poor condition because of the wet soils. We were able to walk to the street from there so it was a pleasant enough stay, just not a lot to do in the circumstances. There were quite a few long term tenants at the Showgrounds who had obviously seen better days. I’m not sure if it was flood related but you have to feel for them living in such precarious conditions.
We moved south to Urunga to spend three nights here. Naturally, now we are somewhere nice, there is rain forecast for the next few days , so we decided we had better make hay while the sun shines and we headed out along the boardwalk to the river mouth. A nice walk of about a kilometre each way. We then headed up the street to do some grocery shopping (though I doubt we really needed to) and back to camp to prepare for the rains. We depart for South West Rocks on Sunday.