Upper Crystal Creek

We celebrated a quiet News Years Eve in Ballina, bought some seafood and a nice bottle of champagne and stayed in. The weather finally turned good in the last couple of days when we were about to leave.

 Perfect summer weather the day before we left

 Note the jogger in the middle!!!

 We left Ballina Monday morning, after a little negotiating to get the van out. The sites are the smallest we have so far encountered and we had to take the awning down on the tent over the road and move a neighbours car to remove the van, but we did get going.

We are now at Upper Crystal Creek staying with our good friend Barry Ferguson. Barry recently purchased a home on 23 acres here and moved in 3 weeks ago, along with his faithful dog Flloyd. The home hadn’t been lived in in 3 years and so there is a lot of work to do. Garry and Barry have been mowing, whipper snippering, moving rocks and rubbish, and have made great progress. We have enjoyed some great food, drink and conversation on the back deck each afternoon.  The property has a brook running through and a couple of resident chickens running around. There is rainforest at the back on the ridge and that brings an abundance of birds in the late afternoon.

 Breaking new ground at Crystal Creek

Crystal Creek is a peaceful and beautiful part of Australia. We have had a couple of trips into nearby Murwillumbah, and have enjoyed walking the main street of shops. Murwillumbah is still an old fashioned type of town, no big shopping centres here yet.  We explored the biggest second hand shop we have ever seen today.