Tamworth to Grafton via Armidale
Today was a day of delays, but all in all an enjoyable day. We left camp just before 10 after a very relaxed morning, and headed on to our first stop - Armidale.
We stopped at the Goldfish Bowl for morning tea. I had a raspberry friand and hot chocolate, and Tim had a strawberry tart and a 'coffee' - don't know what exactly as I don't drink coffee. There was another bike parked there. A yellow R1200GS in fact. It seems BMWs are popular!
The grub was particularly tasty so we stayed a while. Tim ordered another coffee and we both stayed and admired the scenery.
We eventually headed off to a different cafe for lunch. At this stage it was feeling a bit like a cafe crawl. After lunch we fuelled up and set off on our way.
After an hour or so we stopped for a drink somewhere on the windy road between Armidale and Grafton. During this time, I got a phonecall from a friend and fellow BMW rider, who will be joining up with us for a ride tomorrow. While on the phone, I noticed a small leak at the front of the bike. I haven't managed to work out whether it's brake fluid or oil, but no fluid levels I can see have dropped and everything still works. I have cleaned it up to try to find the source, but it appears a very slow leak so it may be a pain to stop.
We got to Grafton around 4:30ish and had planned to head to Yamba. We took off to go a coastal road and then via a ferry across the river. Along the way we found the bridge was closed and the ferry wasn't operating and so we turned back and ended up staying in Grafton due to diminishing light.
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