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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 perfect red ovals. My World Heritage rainforest walk among large trees with strangly vines. The lilly-pilly tree lives here. I carried the flag all day and had a wonderful response. A lady at the pub had me stick one on her car. Down at the river mouth a tern fed, a guy surfed and a large comfortable yacht set shortened sail and headed out to sea.
Monday 8 may. Cousin Jim's. East Ballina. Went into Ballina for a spruik. OK for afternoon. Saw some yachts and drove to jetty. Good yarn, gave sticker. Went to Clarence Head. Carpark. Cool ESE 15 knots. Stuck four stickers on cars!!!! in half an hour and two others took stickers. A guy in a car said he had just been robbed in Nimbin and I also had some bad reports from cousin Jim. Nimbin?

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