About halfway through our journey we had a little time on our hands, so we decided to break up the drive and go surfing at Crescent Head.

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Night has turned to day and the swift journey through a sparkling city of a few hours ago has been replaced by a grim crawl through traffic clogged streets, time again to reflect on what it must be like in the eye of the storm across the Atlantic.

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