May 5 Saturday. Cane country. Graphton into Maclean where 'Southern Cross and Boomerang' have a following. Power poles painted with tartans. Three pubs and an ancestry shop. Sounds like fun and apparently, profit. Bursts of trafic to Yamba. Hotel high on cliffs, everyone rugby. I can't say league or union - they didn't count posessions. Flag popular at table of overindulgers. Yamba prices high but had a $5.50 special fried rice at beach-side scene. Definite excess of Norfolk pines - dare I say plague. And phone booths everywhere. I counted ten. On the other side of the mouth of the Clarence River, Iluka and rainforest. Large monitor lizard (.9 m), dolphins in the bay, a land care group pulling out pitou bush (S. African invader), a large hunting bird (whistling kite) and shells, delicate ones, some
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