Having a sleep in was wonderful. The wind dropped and was
nowhere near as strong as the previous day when we entered. We both surmised we could have gone further
down the coast to another over night port but we would still end up having to
wait out the next 3 days of southerlies. I have never been into Yamba so it was
a chance to explore and that we did.
In the marina is a house boat converted to a fish monger and
we bought some fresh prawns to have a seafood green curry tonight.
The marina is an easy walk into town and the beach not much
further. We walked out to the breakwater
at the river mouth to check out the conditions and they were much better than
when we entered. No big waves and no big winds. We walked along the beach up to
the Pacific Hotel which overlooks the ocean and it was time for a beer.
Yamba Beach
We sat
in the lounge with big windows looking out over the beach and the break wall,
so we sat for quite some time watching the ocean. Very pleasant indeed – yes we
had a few too many and decided that it was too late to cook so we ordered lamb
shanks and ate at the hotel. The prawns were saved for tomorrow night.
The next day was a quiet one and I left Robert to do some
work on his computer. He is building a website and needs to do a lot of
programming and building a data base. I explored the town and bought some
supplies and investigated the requirements to motor up river to a Scottish
heritage town of Maclean. I booked the Harwood Bridge for a 10am opening as we
needed to be there in time for Melbourne Cup lunch.
We finally got to cook the green curry prawns that we should
have had the day before and had a pleasant evening discussing who is going to
win the Melbourne Cup with a bottle of red. We had watched the ABC news and the
owner of Mt Athos was convinced his horse was going to win so that was our
pick.
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