Monday - left Ballina and drove through to Yamba another town that is on the coast though it does not have the miles of beaches the other towns do. However it does have some nice beaches but what we have noticed more than anything is the river system. It is huge. We had a look around the town before lunch then after lunch we were going to go to Maclean but the weather had other ideas. Once again the heavens opened and we had torrential rain and really strong winds so we decided we would go tomorrow. It did fine up again late in the afternoon so we just had a walk around the park which is on a salt water lagoon.
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| One of the Yamba Beaches |
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| Lighthouse Yamba |
Tuesday - drove through to Maclean which is about 15 kms from here. Maclean is a Scottish Town and is quite interesting. It was named in 1862 after the NSW Surveyor General Alistair Maclean. There are a few old historic buildings. They use the Scottish Tartans all over the town, including in the school uniform and on the power poles where they have different tartans on the bottom of lots of the poles. Some of the street signs have dual names in English and Gaelic. It is a very interesting town to look around and is built on the Clarence River. There is a Scottish Shop which sells lots of tartan things.
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| Just one of the street signs |
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| One of the poles with tartan painted on it |
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| View from the lookout |
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