Here we go down the coast to look at all the beautiful beaches that we hear about. We are on the way to Ballina but decide to stop off and have a look at Tweed Heads and Coolingatta. Both these areas have amazing beaches I believe all the highrise buildings near the beach spoils the look. Not far from Ballina is Lennox Heads we have to pass through here a nice little town so we stopped had a look at their beaches, had a pie and icecream.
We arrive at Ballina and book into the big4, there are so many beaches we head staight down after setup for a look. Merv tried off the beach with a rod both night and morning without any luck.
There is a large swell running and the surfies are loving it, there is a lot of wind on the water but it doesn't seem to worry the surfies, the beaches seem to go on forever, there is one beach, seven mile beach up near Lennox Heads that the council allows 4wds on with a permit that can be purchased, with that they have access to approx a half of that beach, we walked a large portion of it, people can also take their horses and dogs here.
There is lots of river and waterways for us to explore, we checked out the bar at the entrance, very dangerous, there is a coast guard watch set up in a tower out near the breakwater, we definitely gave it a miss.
We did end up walking to the beach every evening for a look, the big swells coming in and breaking against the rocks and cliffs sending beautiful white spray into the air it reminded me of home in Tassie.
While we were here we had storm after storm the rain doesn't seem to want to let up and the thunderstorms wow.
We took the canoes out on the river one day, not long out and a storm moved in, we looked like a couple of drowned rats when we got in, I don't like being out somewhere like that with lightning about.
Next day we took the boat out in the river, same thing happened but this time we had a jacket on and stood under the bimmie until it passed, when we were in the car going back to camp it came again with a vengeance, I have never seen rain so hard for so long.
On one of the days we decide to head inland to Lismore, on the way we pass through Alstonville which was a lovely little town set up in the hills.
There is always a joke when I say I am from Tasmania people laughing and wanting to know where the second head is, well when we got to Lismore and was walking around the steets I was expecting to see someone with two heads around each corner, I have never seen so many down and outs and people hanging about that have obvious brain damage from drug use, the streets and shop fronts looked dirty and this is a BIG town, their Christmas tree is the most hideous thing I have seen, a photo of it has gone viral around the world, even into Peru, as the ugliest Christmas tree ever.
On the way back we went via Evans Head, once again more beaches but the wind was blowing 50 barstards, the entrance to the river is supposed to be one of the safest ones to go out of, mad freddie would not go out in it the day we were there.
Our best day was we went to Teven a small town up in the hills for a game of golf, the beauty of nature here is wonderful, lots of birds, platypus in the creek and green everywhere. The course was a great little par 3 we played 18 holes it started to get very hot and humid as we were finishing, by the time we got back to camp another big storm, we still went for a walk to the beach.
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