Day 22 Wooli – Brooms Head
We all piled into the Mermaid Hilux and drove north to Brooms Head, after a fitful nights sleep writhing in agony from the pains in my shoulder and back I decided to take another rest day to allow myself sometime…
Day 21 Woolgoolga to Wooli Rest Day
Waking up to overlook the ocean is truly growing on me the more i stay in surf clubs! Wandering down to the beach its always fun meeting and greeting the locals, who yet again happened to be more teachers. There…
Day 20 Coffs Harbour to Woolgoolga
The Coffs Harbour departure was fairly relaxed, plenty of jokes and sarcasm as usual to begin the day. I paddled out from Park beach due to the major convenience factor of staying in the Lifeguard headquarters there! The currents, swell…
Day 19 Urunga to Coffs Harbour
What a humbling send off that was, i had the beautiful support of Urunga Surf Club members with me on the waters edge as well as a group on the over looking headland. There was a bit of a surf…
Day 18 Scotts Head to Urunga
So today was a very different pace to the usual, the team decided that a river paddle was in order; and what a good idea that turned out to be! The ease of paddling with a constantly changing surrounding did…
Day 16 South West Rocks Rest Day
Today was a rest day due to the agonising pain i was in from the previous days paddle both mentally and physically. I was seriously excited about a sleep in, excited like you can’t even imagine (actually maybe you can)!…
Day 17 Scotts Head to South West Rocks
Yes this title reads wrong…I am supposed to be paddling north not south, however due to conditions the game plan changed so i didn’t have to attempt to battle the elements. Major positive for the right shoulder that seems to…
Day 15 Hat Head to South West Rocks
Waking up this morning to a grey drizzle didn’t seem to put me off, after the previous two days of progression i almost felt un stoppable…almost. I had such a beautiful little send off this morning with a few local…
Day 14 Crescent Head to Hat Head
Waking up feeling refreshed after yesterdays mammoth paddle was an all round bonus! Thankfully Jess stuck around and was prepared to help me suit up pre paddle as the whole sheep fat thing has made all my wetsuits pretty sticky…
Day 13 Port Macquarie to Crescent Head
Waking up to the sound of my mermaid sister Jess’s voice was almost surreal, with both Nic and Jess on the Mermaid land crew today things were twice as fast and twice as efficient as usual! The mermaid crew was…