For some days Mrs P had been receiving suspiciously similar posts of a Danube River cruise from two different Facebook friends, one who lives in Tassie, the other in Melbourne. It turns out that, unknown to each other, they were both on the same vessel! Mrs P therefore took steps to enable them to identify each other and, overnight we received confirmation that they had met - more or less by accident!
Notwithstanding the confusion created by the Prop electing to traverse Tourist Route No 12 (and to a lesser extent, No 15) the Prop, yet again, chose to leave the Pacific Freeway and follow Tourist Route No 16 which includes Hungry Head and Urunga
Urunga is a delightful riparian settlement which includes a timber boardwalk that is well over a kilometre in length together with a rather stately near century-old pub, the Ocean View Hotel. An highly delightful location!
Having sampled the delights of the splendidly un-confusing Tourist Drive No 16, the Prop and Mrs P headed for Coffs Harbour.
Alas, upon arrival at Coffs Harbour it appeared to the Prop that some mischievous miscreant had erected a number of signs warning the residents of that city of the imminent arrival of the Prop. Numerous signs proclaimed "Sealy - Look Out!"
Upon closer inspection, it appears that the offending signs were not aimed at the Prop but we're instead intended to direct visitors to Coffs Harbour to a local vantage point.
Disappointingly, the cafe adjacent to the "Sealy Lookout Forest Sky Pier" (which has no association with Sealys Shop & Café in Bothwell, Tasmania) was not open for business. It was therefore not possible to ascertain why it was that the good folk of Coffs Harbour had named this location in honour of the Prop.
Confused yet again, the Prop and Mrs P sought out the Fairview Apartments in East Ballina.
(By way of response to recent unjustified criticism levelled at the Prop's literary style (nay, his very ouvre) the Prop fully appreciates that the foregoing narrative lacks a true literary beginning, middle and end but this is journalism, not fiction!)
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No criticism. The article on Sealy Lookout and the near accidental meeting of two fb friends of Mrs P delivers where the Kings Coro did not. It's got a redhead (historically so), a modern day horse and carriage, and real-time journeying. We are entranced and wide awake for each chapter, down here on Bruny Island.
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