I hope you appreciate the hardy writer sitting shivering in the 5 degree igloo to bring you today's news!
Our day off so we headed to Yamba for a coffee at Carl's friends shop which was closed and to attend their local market which was somewhat of an anti climax after Salamanca in Hobart. We ended up waiting around 30 minutes for a coffee at the market. Just as well it was good even if they did have to remake them the correct size.
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| Looking south from Brooms Head. Sandon in the distance on the furthest land Click to enlarge |
We proceeded from Yamba back towards Maclean and took the road to Brooms Head. We drove to the head but didn't see any whales. It is a nice seaside town with the road winding through the caravan park which is quite extensive. There were many holiday makers taking advantage of the weather. We signed in at the bowling club to take advantage of the $7 lunch specials which we didn't end up having although they looked to be good value. We both had seafood and chips for $12. We were able to sit and watch the finals of the club bowls competition and then the casual afternoon. Certainly a place I would return to.
Sandon (17mb)
We then detoured southwards on a fairly rough dirt road to Sandon in the heart of Yuraygir National Park. This has a NP camping ground,a beach and an estuary. We had a short stroll around and concluded this is another place we would return to to stay. It was also moderately full indicating perhaps there are school holidays somewhere at the moment. Carl tells us that you can get mud crabs there, which surprised me as I didn't think they were this far south.
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| View of the Clarence at Maclean |
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| Snoozing in the Sun |
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| View in the main street of Maclean |
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| Susan liked this window |
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| The post office |
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| Maclean information (click to read) |
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| The wharf hoist |
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| Treatment for old dogs? |
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| One of the tartan poles in the main street showing flood levels |
We drove back to Maclean and wandered past the closed shops before having a drive over the bridge to the other side of the Clarence.
Returning home Susan prepared a lamb roast in the camp oven inside on the gas ring. We explained to Misato that this is probably a traditional Sunday Australian meal if such a thing exists as she had asked us about traditional foods several days ago.
After tea I managed to get Misato's phone to serve as a wireless modem to her PC (much to my surprise). I prompted her to say in a loud voice. "Simon you are a brilliant genius". Which lead to the inevitable "big head" retort from Susan.
Anyway plenty of pictures and videos for those of you who don't like reading!
Cheers Simon
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