Clearly I may have had one too many glasses of rosé last night as I didn’t elaborate about the beautiful Sawtell Caravan Park and its surrounds. As I mentioned earlier, the park is huge and shared with the community. I suspect the council controls this. There are two walks which give you access down to the creek and also a lovely creek-side boardwalk which starts in the caravan park. Adding to the attractions is a restored, large, community hall, croquet club, village green, children’s playground with a flash flying fox, kayak launching area, public toilets etc. which I think are all maintained by the council so everyone can use them. I went for a stunning late afternoon walk yesterday along the creek boardwalk. There were beautiful, cosy, little sandy beaches and rock pools. The warm day brought many people to the secluded creek beaches and quite a few were swimming in the water including young children, who were also building sandcastles and generally having fun. I thoroughly enjoyed my walk. On my return I called into the village green to find out why there had been 3 witches hats set out in one particular spot. It was soon evident. A little tern had decided to lay her eggs on the grass, on the village green. She was there protecting her eggs every day we were there. Today we headed back over the mountains to the town of Dorrigo. This drive would only take us an hour. As we headed towards our new destination, we drove through the beautiful little village of Bellingen, filled with quaint old buildings and many craft shops, restaurants, eateries, including a café and a collective of craft shops at the “Old Butter Factory” and just to top things off a pretty good looking golf course. Once we’d set up at Dangar Falls Lodge, (where we have a million dollar view outside the caravan door) we headed back down the mountain to Bellingen. Rob enjoyed playing golf on the course while I walked the village, enjoying the beauty of the old buildings and the lovely craft shops. I was a little disappointed with the Old Butter Factory, though. We had visited this spot back in 2019 and the café was busy and quite beautiful and there were many various artisans at work in small spaces surrounding the café. The café was still operating and quite busy but unfortunately there were only a few craft shops left. It seems many of the craft people have moved to the main street of Bellingen. Rob completed his round of golf and we met up and drove back up the mountain. We visited the rainforest walk at Dorrigo for some good views of the area before heading to Dangar Falls, which are just adjacent to our lovely caravan park. There was plenty of water flowing over the falls and it was quite spectacular. Some brave souls were swimming in the pools at the base of the falls.
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