Harrington

 2 - 3 March 2025

We left Old Bar and drove on to Harrington to stay for one night, so Mick could go out looking for the South Island pied oyster catcher again. We arrived before lunch and set up under a nice shady tree. Late in the afternoon Mick went out with the camera - but once again he had no luck.

Harrington is at the mouth of Manning River

We were watching the development of the cyclone and decided that we would just stay one night in Harrington, then move inland to Armidale so we could still come back to the coast once the weather passed. Of course it rained overnight so we had to pack up the trailer wet - but at least we managed to do it between passing showers.

By the time we left, the forecast was for some very heavy rain even in Armidale, and it looked like there could be some significant flooding ahead for the Northern Rivers region - right where we wanted to spend some time. We decided to go to Armidale anyway and then make up our minds. We had also tried calling some canvas repairers but were having no luck finding someone to fix the zip.