BEAUTIFUL YAMBA

Well my first attempt to inform you of our adventure went belly up when the computer crashed and did not perform an auto recovery.

Was I calm and relaxed, not a bloody chance in the world I hate computers but I will attempt to remember the literary brilliance that I had achieve before I was so rudely interrupted.

We headed off on the 1^st February planning to do a trip through the coastal areas of NSW as well as the mid country areas.

The reason for the trip?

We just wanted to get out of the place, meet up with some life-long friends as well as help Josh do a refit of a pharmacy in Huskisson NSW.

First stop was the beautiful coastal town of Yamba where we stayed at the Blue Dolphin resort, what a great place, beautiful and clean and was amazingly vacant.

We met up with John and Wil along with 2 other couples who they had met on their 15 month trip around Australia. Bernie and Bev came up from Canberra and John and Judy came from the “Bright Side” of Brisbane.

Our first night was the traditional trip to the bowlo for dinner.

Spent the next day relaxing around the pool followed by a walk through the Iluka nature reserve. We had the privilege of feeding a couple of leeches, I hope they liked the alcohol supplemented diet.

The next day took us to Angourie Reserve and Yuraygir National Park as well as Spooky Beach, Blue pools and Green Point.

After all that treking we had a thirst which saw us head to the Pacific Hotel, what a view.

We were getting beautiful weather but we kept hearing about the terrible weather further south.

Trice had always wanted to do the paddle boat so off we went. The fellow who unlocked the boat said that the first 5 minutes are fun but after that it will become a chore, he was so right.

That created a dire need to partake in a few relaxing wines that night on the banks of the Clarence river as the sun settled.

A bit of excitement today, coming back to our site I was coming around a large tree and there he was at eye level. Each day at around 4 o’clock 3 rather large goannas come walking through the sites looking for food so they became a bit of a centre of attention around happy hour time.

This is what greeted me as I came back to the site, that was not a squeal and I was only walking slightly faster than normal.

This was a bit better than the day before when a woman from Dapto got such a fright she fell over and split her thumb open ending up in hospital, she already had a broken arm so she must have been a bit accident prone, don’t you love the name DAPTO….

We were supposed to leave today but where we were getting great sunshine with warm temperatures but further south was copping it. We decided to stay another 4 nights.

We decided to find out more about Yamba so we headed off to the museum to start the historic 3 klm walk. By the time we got back we have travelled some 6 klm but we did learn a heck of a lot about this great little coastal town.

A little thirst was quenched by lunch and an alcoholic beverage at the Yamba golf club.

Off for a little drive to Mclean to find out more about our Scottish heritage, we didn’t find much other than the tartans for the Campbells and the Shaws, the main streets have all the telegraph poles painted in various clan tartans.

On our last night at Yamba we caught up with John and Maureen who are good friends who were staying at the Blue Dolphin as well.