Clarence Town: Spider Attack

Today marks 6 months on the road!!! Despite occasional days of being over it or sick of each other, we are still going strong and enjoying every day’s new adventure. Here’s to another 6 months.

With some more rain overnight we were happy to pack up camp and move on. We headed out of the National Park, stopping briefly at some giant sand dunes, then through the tiny river side towns of Hawks Nest and Tea Gardens (a delightful name for a town). From the latter we spontaneously jumped an old wooden ferry which just happened to be leaving at the time we turned up. The ferry takes an hour across Port Stevens to Nelson Bay. At our destination we grabbed a bite to eat and had a look around the marina and main street of the busy tourist town. From back at Tea Gardens we drove up the hills to a historic little town called Stroud, which was owned by the AAC - the Australian Agricultural Company. A great town to spend a few hours in, but we only had one, before having to find a place to stay. We found a riverside park at Clarence Town on the way to the Hunter Valley, our next destination. For the third time in two weeks we found a huntsman spider in the van, much to Clare’s horror and now paranoid belief that they are breading in the van! Scary…