We awoke this morning to Jill in pain. The problem was obviously not her usual back pain. We obviously were not travelling any further west until we had that sorted so it was off to Warialda hospital.
Being a Saturday there was not a lot happening and the place was all locked up. A press of the button brought a nurse to the front door who took us in and did the preliminaries while we waited for the Doctor to do his rounds. His diagnosis - a kidney stone. As there was no imaging equipment in that part of the world we would have needed to go south to Tamworth or return to Lismore. His advice - go home and get it sorted.
So much for meeting up with Margaret and Arthur in Gundabooka.
We hadn't had breakfast at this stage so our first stop on our return towards Lismore was a pleasant breakfast in Inverell. Then on to Glen Iness where we contemplated where to camp the night as there were not enough hours in the day to get to the Emergency Department at Lismore on this day.
To add to our dilemma, while we were parked in Glen Innes someone from across the road backed out of their drive right into our van. Fortunately, he only clipped the storage box on the back (not too difficult to fix) but it certainly didn't improve our day. They say things happen in threes. What next?
We decided to camp the night on the river at Cangai at the bottom of the Gibraltar Range. The spot was very crowded but eventually, we did find somewhere to camp. This would be a lovely spot if it weren't so popular. As it was we were only looking for somewhere for the night so was no big deal for us today.
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| Campsite at Cangai |
A bit of a walk before dinner and we were ready for bed - Jill dosed up on painkillers.
