Bona tempus -finally

I can't find a Polari word for weather so have invented one, based on French.

Lets run through the awards for the day.
Bird of the day:  Pied Butcherbird.  Flock of the day was about 50 Straw-necked Ibis. 
Flower of the day:Very few contenders.  The winner was this yellow jobbie outside the door into St John's Church in Raymond Terrace.

Garden of the day: Well won by some trimmed privet and Camellia in a park in Taree.

Geological feature of the day: This was a view of the escarpment from 4 Mile Hill outside Taree.  Sorry, no snap.

Outstanding Weather feature of the day; Warmth and stillness at Port Macquarie.
Council behaviour of the day: Whoever the idiots were who closed off a lane on at least a kilometre of the Pacific Highway for weed mowing.  And were then sitting there having their lunch as we drove past at 40kph!

The weather at Fingal Bay was not good and we were concerned it had damaged the camper.  If this was the case we were going to abandon and return home.  However we persevered and by the time we got to about Taree things were pretty good.  As we sat outside tonight to eat tea they are also good at Port Macquarie.

Finally we can answer "Yes"to "Are we having fun yet?"

After a very ordinary half nights sleep- the wind had dropped but the camper seemed to be groaning more we decided to head to Port Maquarie and see what happened.  (The alternative was to throw in the towel and go home.)  Our first stop was Raymond Terrace where the Town Clock deluded us into thinking we had a Memorial.

This was the Memorial, a block off the main drag

In writing about Soldier's Point I commented on the roof over the bowling green.  A similar structure was at Raymond Terrace and on enquiring I was told it was to keep both rain and sun off the bowlers

Another Memorial built into a wall at St Johns Church.

On to Buladelah for another Memorial and lunch.

Quite a few kms further up the highway was Taree.  They had an excellent Park around the Memorial with a clock-obelisk for WW1 and polished marble for WW2.

A bit further into the park were some interesting sculptures.  I particularly liked the top portrait on the LH pole!

This overall work was pretty good ...

....  but where the rainbow serpent meets M S Escherwas particularly clever

They had even printed nice images on their litter bins!  The small child is asking if she can pat Tammy (who was exploring the back of the bins - perhaps something had been spilled)!

Two more sculptures in the main street (note the goanna on the ground).

Cundletown is on the edge of Taree.  Despite being on the main drag - inspirationally named "Main St" - this Hall was not in the Register of NSW Memorials: it is now!

After some limited help at the Port Macquarie VIC we found our way to the Flynns Beach caravan park and checked in.  It was warm enough to sit outside untill after dark!   The lady manager said they had koalas but all we found today was this Brush-tailed Possum in the tree above our site.

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