The Wandering Tops: Nashua

11 February, 2020

Nashua

Friday was wet when we packed up taking what we needed from the caravan for the house sit and putting the caravan in storage at Tweed Valley. It wasn't the easiest packing as we had to contend with the rain and had many damp things which we would have preferred to leave stored in the caravan but had to take with us to dry out. To add to the planning Byron Bay had 250 mm of rain over night which had flooded some of the roads and bridges which we where to take to get to our house sit at Nashua.

We had planned to take the direct route from Bangalow only 10 min to the house but Sue had contacted us and the Nashua road bridge was under about 600 mm of water so we were given alternative directions via Newrybar towards Fernleigh and along the Booyong road to Nashua which took us at least a half an hour longer and we still had to drive through about 100 meters of water about 200 mm deep. Just as well we decided to store van as would have been interesting to say the least to tow van along these badly pot holed roads.

On arrival we quickly unpacked and Sue started to go through the requirements needed to look after the dogs, Henry and Jess. The next morning I wanted to get an item from Aldi in Byron Bay so I set off early and could take the road over the previously flooded bridge into Byron, and it still continued to rain.

A down poor in Byron which was flooding the parking ticket meters.

Henry & Jess were great dogs to look after, they both enjoyed their morning and evening walks, although at times we thought Jess had a bit of attitude and looked as though she was not enjoying it. We had a couple of different directions to walk all with various scenery and very pleasant. Henry and Jess had three meals a day which needed some preparation - toast and egg for breakfast, a bone before dinner of rice, vegetables (which Helen cooked) and a protein of either meat or fish. We felt they ate better than us at times!

On our evening walks we would pass by some horses in the next paddock

The morning walk would take me up onto the range which looked west towards Lismore.

We spent a lot of time sitting out on the screened deck observing the rain forest.

Byron council is known for the potholes in their roads.

We took a drive into Lismore for shopping one day and the sky opened up when we arrived at the shops. That afternoon many of Lismore roads were closed due to flooding so we were lucky to finish our shopping and get back to Nashua. Heard on the news that the rain had put all the NSW bushfires out so that was good news although we were a bit over having rain every day!