Today we woke up to a lovely sunny day with a strong southerly breeze. We decided we should have a game of golf, probably our last one before arriving back in Sydney. Around 8 am I had a call from the Coastguard enquiring about our whereabouts, apparently when I logged off on arrival last night, the guy on duty had logged us as passing, not arriving and had not notified Point Danger and Southport of our arrival, so everyone was confused. It turned out that he is a bit forgetful sometimes.
After breakfast and get things organized, I checked the Yamba Golf Club website and it said social play all day, so we set out walking to the golf club carrying our clubs.
When we arrived there seemed to be a lot of people there and we were told that there was a competition on and we wouldn’t be able to get on the course till 3pm. Normally there is social play all Tuesday except for this one day of the year !
We went back to the marina, hired a car and drove to Maclean and played there. It also allowed us to renew Carole’s drivers license at the motor registry there. Her license had expired in September and there was no way of renewing it from QLD.
Carole put in another sterling performance to win the day with 33 points vs 28 making her a clear winner of the inaugural Mica Cup by 20 points.
When we got back to the marina and had a shower, Carole got talking to a lady from a big catamaran (Leopard 46, “Rhiannon”) which arrived yesterday just after us. It turned out in the discussion that this is the same cat that got into trouble in Coffs Harbour last year when we had the Coastguard people all over our boat at 2 am in the morning throwing lines to pull them off the pile berths they were jammed up against, when they fouled one propeller with a mooring line and lost control of the boat when departing.
Tonight we had dinner with David and Justine Lovell at their new residence on the riverside. They had only moved in 3 weeks ago, but have found themselves a fantastic position, particularly of you are keen on boating.
View from outside entertaining area
We had a lovely dinner sitting outside overlooking the water.
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