Yamba NSW August 27th 2023

 Yamba NSW August 27th 2023

"Flew" down the Pacific Highway to Yamba. Not sure if the big huge ridge over the Clarence River was open as year, but it certainly is now and completes the 'superhighway. Yaba is about 15k away on the coast and as we drove in we are both wondering if it's the same place we had come to before. Given that it's been eleven year, some change is expected and of course our memories aren't as sharp as they may have been. Theres plenty of change around, new buildings, new housing estates and the like. 

We arrived at the Blue Dolphin van park and were even more bemused. We must have stayed here but it just didn't look right.

They have lots and lots of cabins and new amenities and a ne office. And three pools and a swim-up bar.

I went back to my archives and found a photo from 2012, we were defiantly here! The site has gone and been replaced by a cabin, but t was satisfying to know we hadn't made it up regarding our previous visit.

I too a walk along the river this morning and took some snaps: 

We took a drive around the place, going first to Angourie Beach where we discovered "The Blue and Green pools".

On closer examination I saw some really rusty 'rock' that had a familiar straightness to it. A little sleuthing reveals that the pools aren't natural, they were created when they quarried the rock to make the train walls in the mouth of the Clarence, way back in 1860.

Rock Pools, Angiurie NSW

Rock Pools, Angiurie NSW

And because I like them I took a snap the lighthouse at Yamba.

Lighthouse. Yamba NSA