This section of the highway, stretching 9km from Bellwood to Valla Beach Road, is the result of two deviations constructed back-to-back by the Department of Main Roads in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is currently single-carriageway, with limited-access conditions and several overtaking lanes, bypassing the large town of Nambucca Heads and the tiny village of Valla.
The Department of Main Roads, in its journal Main Roads, describes the deviation thus: “The deviation leaves the existing highway on the southern outskirts of Nambucca Heads at Bellwood Creek, skirts a swamp area on the side of a ridge and passes through a saddle at Bowraville Rd (the Old Coast Rd). It crosses the Main North Coast Railway Line by means of an overbridge and continues through a saddle at Gordons Knob Rd. After completion of the deviation both the railway level crossing and Gordons Knob Rd were closed to traffic.”
This cache is located at the Northern Entrance into the Town of Nambucca Heads. Link Road was constructed as part of the Bellwood Deviation which was constructed in the 1970’s.
Cache is a micro
Hope you enjoy some of the scenery on this trail.