The Coff's Coast had over 300mls of rain from Saturday through to Monday, so we had to negotiate a few flooded roads between Brisbane and Sandy Beach on Monday. The trip took us over seven hours (instead of the usual 4 and 1/2).
This minor flooding near Ballina caused us a 3/4 hour wait. Only a single stream of cars was being let through at low speeds (the sides of the road were too deeply flooded to have two lanes open). As the rain got heavier the closer we got to Coff's we had another major hold up (over 1 hour) at Blackadder Creek near Corindi Beach. That was a scary one to cross - they closed the road altogether later that night, it got so deep.
Tuesday dawned just as wet. We headed to the marina with Ros and Pete for lunch at Ocean Noir and got a wonderful view of the choppy, wind swept, brown water ocean.
Wednesday was wet too. We drove to Bellingen where there was water lying around everywhere.
It was a thrill to see Maxie and Claire's work hanging in the Bellingen Art Prize exhibition in the main street of this pretty village. I managed to get a quick picture of Maxie's before I was "admonished". Ironically, the surface of Maxie's ceramic sculpture depicts the river story - inspired by the impact of our recent devastating drought. 
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