Trail Bay, South West Rocks: Enjoy It While You Can

It was a fresh morning, and fortunately the rain had stopped. The friendly horse in the paddock behind us came back to visit, expecting more food. We drove to Dangar Falls, with thankfully no walk required to get to the lookout. It was surprisingly impressive. We stopped in Dorrigo town and strolled around, It wasn’t that interesting except for a small gourmet food and wine shop including the distillery. About 6 km out of town was Dorrigo National Park, a World Heritage listed park. There were great facilities for viewing the park, an informative info centre, a skywalk (wooden platform over the tree tops), the Glade picnic area were we had lunch, and many walking tracks. We chose one of the longest, a 6km walk through the forest, which took us two tiring hours. It seemed like most of it was uphill, but well worth the view of two great waterfalls. After a coffee stop at a spectacular lookout, we drove back down to the coast. We had a quick look at Nambucca Heads, pausing just for a view from a lookout. We hurried to our destination, arriving at Trial Bay Gaol campground just after the office closed. So we just picked the best available spot right on the beach overlooking the bay, hoping that they would not make us move tomorrow. The sunset view across the water was fantastic, and kangaroos came along to join us. We soaked it all in because we may not be here for long.