With some sadness we left Emerald Beach on Pacific Highway, past lovely little Woolgoolga – temple – inland to Grafton where there was an electoral office, much form filling and we voted. That done, pushed on to Yamba making small detours to Ullmara and Maclean which is a Scottish town where we had been told Scottish tartans were painted on telegraph poles, lo and behold the Thomson tartan was the second one, so screeeech – pulled up – photograph session.
The first day at the Blue Dolphin C/park we went back to Maclean to check it out more.
The town runs along beside the wide Clarence River, with a focus on things Scottish,I researched more about the Thomson clan, discovered 4 different versions of tartan. It became more windy so we returned home. That evening John started to realise he had a cold coming on. The first thing to do next day find chemist to buy J’s preferred method of weathering a cold – horseradish, garlic & vit C tablets. Cute shops in Yamba bought some gear to use with our computers, at the camping shop found a lightweight miniature clothes line, only it has yellow fittings, not blue which is my theme for the ila-j.
We were made aware that the dirty splotches on our van were fruit bat droppings, so made sure our car was not parked under the palm tree.
Researching the area on Dragons Abreast site found there is a club operating near Maclean, went down there Wednesday at 3:30, dressed up in all my gear, but by 4 pm no one had fronted – we can but try.
As John was off colour we rested a lot during out stay, did some walks, little fishing, caught up on things and left on the Friday for Brunswick Heads.