Yamba NSW. July 5th 2026

 Yamba NSW. July 3rd-7th 2026

We are back in Yamba again. We were surprised to find ourselves down the other end of the Blue Dolphin Caravan Park, rather than our 'usual' place right up the other end. It's an ensuite site in their unique style which is s block of six, one each for six adjacent sites rather than one ensuite one site.  Our van is backed right onto one of the pools, but probably because they don't heat this pool, it's pretty quiet. The kids come and go to have a ride on the water slide but then disappear again back to the other heated pool. Or their scooter, or bikes or wherever. So far so good. 

Went out for a bit of a drive around today, first stop was Angourie to look at the 'world famous' beach. Well it's world famous if you are in the surfing world.

Angourie Beach. Yamba NSW 2026

Around the corner are the "Blue and Green pools". I've been here a few times and they just look like dark forbidding pools of cold inky water. As I've mentioned before, they are the result of the quarrying that took place here from 1890 to 1899 to provide bluestone rock to build the channel training walls in the nearby Clarence River.

Angourie Pools. yamba NSW 2026

Toom bad that in 1899, the miners broke through into a spring and the big holes filled up. They used to have steam powered crane to lift the rocks onto a steam train that ran right around the headland and across to a wharf on the Clarence at Yamba, maybe 5k. You can see a few old relics lying around and if you consider that these rails have been more or less in salt water for 127 years, they look pretty good.

Old railway lines. Angourie Pools, Yamba NSW July 2026

Back around in Yamba itself we took a cook's tour in the car. Overlooking the Main Beach is the lighthouse. Not the original. This one was built in 1956 to replace the original one that became a bit obsolete when they built the Pacific Hotel more or less right in front of it. 

Lighthouse. Yamba July 2026