Day 74 - Grafton to Repton - 100km
I met Frank in the morning and we had another yarn. I set off and was glad to hear the WA missing girl had been found alive and well, putting a spring in my step.
The lovely smooth highway with bike lane finished up just before coffs harbour and turned into winding roads with no verge and was a little hairy. Turns out there has been backlash at building a bypass around Coffs Harbour and I was back on the original highway.
I saw the big banana, a little underwhelming, on the side of a bustling highway on a corner but I was glad to see it.
I stopped in town for a little look and talked to a local who gave me a good route out of Coffs along a bike track and then onto the old highway. Also told me a cyclist had been killed a few years ago on these roads.
I road on and found a little spot under a bridge for my camp that night. Full of mozzies but I put on a good serving of Bushman's heavy duty which keeped most of them away.