Home to Kingscliff

We are on the road again! I picked up the Bushtracker, parked it out the front of our house, carried out the last of the food, and Anita packed it away. Bluey and Tilly were ever so anxious they would be left behind, loitering at the front door all morning.

Bluey’s day started badly as he had to go to the vet at 8am for his vaccinations. He was trembling before I even lifted him out of the car!

Yesterday, he endured 3 hours of grooming as I was being taught how to do it myself by Tammy of the Dog Collective. It was amazing to use good grooming equipment! She demonstrated the technique on one side of Bluey, then I did my best to trim his other side to look the same. Tammy looks a bit like Beccy Cole, and even talks like Beccy, but the resemblance is not demonstrated very well in my photographs.

Tilly had her vaccination the previous day. I couldn’t save money taking them together as our regular vet was rationing cat vaccinations. I found another vet with a good supply. After such a stressful time, both critters are zonked!

We only drove 40kms to get to Kingscliff. We are visiting some old friends from when we lived near Yamba. They live nearby and we haven’t seen them since before Covid!

It was a busy week, complicated by me losing a filling and having a second unscheduled trip to the dentist. At least I did manage to paint the carport beam to hopefully stop further rust.

Our caravan park site is not very well laid out as there is a steep rise over grass to the concrete slab where the van is meant to be parked. Instead, we parked the van on the concrete slab where an annex could go. We are only here for two nights, so can put up with this unusual arrangement. This is not the best caravan park in the area, but is the only one that takes dogs – lots of big dogs! Tilly won’t be doing any walks around this park!

We drove to the beach and had a short walk along the foreshore. Kingscliff is not the best beach we have ever seen. Bluey didn’t notice the big bird behind him!

We had early dinner at the Kingscliff Hotel which allows dogs in the large outdoor dining area. The food it typical pub fare to suit drinkers and families with little kids, but my beef nachos were very tasty.