Well its about time I get some free internet. Guess its also been a pretty busy couple of days in Sydney as well. So I'm just going to blast this out and hope for the best.
Coffs Harbour. A small picturesque spot with great beaches, death defying surf and...rain?
I had chosen this place as a stop because it was basically an untouched gem from majority of the backpackers. Unfortunately, I didn't check the weather. Still I was optomistic whilst leaving Byron Bay. It was raining hard and I thought, great, I'm going to a new place on a crappy day.
Turns out, it was just as terrible in Coffs...actually worse. How could it be worse you may ask...well...geez hold your horses, I'll tell ya.
Sheesh, everyone always wanting things as they want them when they want them. *takes a breath*
Alright. So the first night was damp, but atleast I was able to make my way down to the warf, beach and harbour and do a little walking, snap some pictures and think to myself. Wow, this place would be awesome without all the grey clouds and gail like winds.
Therefore because of the weather I just spent the evening playing cards with people at the hostel and sharing stories.
The next day...was a write off.
The heavens opened and let down more water than a children's water park. I was stuck in the hostel, no internet, no people and hoping for a break in the weather. Luckily, it happened. I packed up my water proof bag and gear and searched out the nearest free wireless internet.
Once I was too far away from the hostel and too far away from anything else, the rain demons thought, "hey, lets start again and see how this kid likes it. But this time lets get huge drops of rain, mixed with a machine gun like wind...yesss...that sounds good"
Soooo, I got pelted and drenched, and soakingly dragged myself into McDonalds for the free wifi. Only, to find out it was down due to the weather.
(picture me on my knees with my hands raised in the air to the sky)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Since it was still raining outside, I decided to just read the paper that was available. Finally, the rain subsided enough for me to notice a movie theater nearby.
Well bless my lucky stars. I race over to the theater and find, its cheap Tuesday. Awesome, I love cheap. Also I'm able to just make it into the movie before it starts.
The movie was Duplicity and it was great. Funniest thing, was when they stopped the movie in the middle of a scene and a lady struts in. "Um...ya...I'm here to announce that all the rain has now caused a flood and our parking lot is under water. Sooo...uh...just thinking...if you don't want your cars all drouned...maybe...um...move them or something...thanks."
*People scuttle out of their chairs*
I sit back and begin to chuckle to myself silently.
Once the movie was finally over I exited the theater and witnessed this.
Complete and utter water works.
Well...guess I better be hitting the ol...soppy trail.
This time however, I wasn't discouraged by the rain. One, I was already as wet as I could possibly be and secondly, a good song was playing on my Ipod.
Mmmm good ol Journey...no...I won't stop believing. Hmmm...looks like that lady's giving me weird looks. Pfff...she just doesn't know good dancing when she see's it.
Finally back and dry at the hostel I begin playing cards and chatting with some people from Holland about my day. They I notice the pool outside starting to overflow.
Then the water rising outside the doors.
Soon water started spilling into the room.
The hostel staff placed blankets against the doors to stop the water.
The water takes this as some kind of joke and pushes the blankets away like a hot knife cutting through butter(If you could imaging the water laughing...well it would've been doing so, very menacingly)
The water has now reached over my sandles and is touching my feet
The water leves are now over my ankles
The water has completely filled the bottom floor of the hostel, up to the halfway point of your ankle to your knee.
I begin to laugh. HAHAHAHA. People are freaking out, saying things like they couldn't see this coming and why did this happen. I explain I saw this happening that's why I'm on the second floor and it all resulted because of a basic scientific explanation. TOO MUCH WATER FOR THE DRAINS.
Some people didn't find it humerous.
Then I offered free swimming lesson's on the first floor...Everyone enjoyed this, but none partook.
The next morning the hostel was dead. Except for me and three other people...oh and the staff, as they were all tearing up the carpet and draining out the water. I was still in great spirits and decided to go check out the damage around the town.
Turns out, the whole town got hit...very hard. Closed signs and water damage was everywhere. I even looked into a parkade to see it full of water. Well...looks like I should be heading on.
Luckily, the greyhound wasn't affected by the water and even though it was an hour late. Picked me up and brought me on a long and terrible journey to Sydney.
Geez, who can say they witnessed a flash flood in a small harbour called Coffs. Only a handful of people, and I'm one of them. That's traveling my friends...yes...that's traveling.
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