BEAUTIFUL YAMBA, RAIN ONE MINUTE, THUNDERSTORMS THE NEXT!!

this first photo shows the view from our site when it's not sunny, the second when it is!

This is such a pretty place, but the weather here is atrocious - blew a gale all thursday night, so much so we took down our awning. then last night it started to rain, and rain, and then some. take a look at the weather map of australia. the only place it is raining is down the east coast of australia. and where are we?????????????? enuff said! still, mustn't grumble. hasn't stopped us walking and fishing and things. wozzie now has two fish to my one, and we still haven't got a photo to prove it! we are having a thunderstorm at the moment, but cooking tea in our kettle-oven thingy which my work gave us at the same time, it is brilliant for both barbequing and roasting. we have learned so much in the past three days here, lots of poeple wander over and tell you things, including one chappy who was watching us put up the awning with this bemused expression on his face. When we had finished (we thought), he wandered over and said - um, you realise you're not putting that up properly? ah, no! says we. well, if you slide that piece out, it will lock the stays into place. oh, says we, THAT's what those black knobs are for! it's been a huge learning curve, that's for sure. but lots of laughs. Yamba is a wonderful fishing town, with lots of bays and inlets, and this amazing breakwater, which we walked this morning. We feel sorry for the people in tents and campervans, at least we are warm and dry with plenty of room! We move on to the Gold Coast on Monday, and the longterm forecast doens't look too hot for there either! oh well, can't do much about the weather. I'm sure I'll be complaining about how hot it is before too long!