Inverness to Glenn Innis and Yamba

The road through the Great Dividing Range was testing with its sharp bends and inclines but through truly beautiful country. The trouble was the road is so narrow that it was impossible to stop to take photos except at designated stopping areas.  This was one called Raspberry Lookout.

 

I was able to take this one from the van as I was stopped by roadworks where half the road had fallen off the mountain and so we had only one lane for a couple of kms.  You can see the lush growth of ferns, creepers and anything else that was growing.

 

This is a photo I wanted to put on my last blog of the little towns along the way.  Again, this is the Clarence River and the town was McLean.

 

My first sight of the Pacific Ocean.  I stayed with Lyn who I met at Blaze Aid in Yamba. She had left a week before me but invited me to stay with her on my journy.  Lyn's house was about 200 m from the Clarence River and she had been flooded out 5 times in 4 years. Each time it was designated a one hundred year flood. She was very fed up.  Lyn originally lived on the river bank but the council compulsorily acquired her house about 7 years ago due to flood risk and it was demolished.  She is a long way back now but says she has had more flooding than in the original house.

 

I am now in Sydney with Harriet, Bill, Hannah and Finn and will await the arrival of Myles and Thomas on Thursday evening.