Yamba - Our new home.

Long story short - we've been through nine homes, shortlisted down to five then shortlisted to three and finally, after starting at 9:00 AM yesterday, we chose a place at 3:00 PM and made an offer.
It was rejected so we upped it a bit and it was accepted at about 5:00 PM.

So we have placed a deposit on the house and will be moving in early June, as the current owners are away on a trip and won't return until the end of May.

Here are a few photos:-

Until tomorrow we have been staying at the Moby Dick motel.....a lovely spot right on the Clarence River and adjacent the boat harbour here in Yamba.

A few of the local fauna waiting for their afternoon fish-feed......

And as the day drew to a close, the setting sun cast a soft pink over the eastern sky.......

D-Day is set.

Five months almost to the day from when we first advertised our home for sale, contracts were exchanged last week (16th. April) and the agent's poster outside our home now sports a "Sold" sticker.

Settlement date is 30 days from the exchange and that means we have to vacate by midday on the 16th. of May.

It's a funny feeling knowing that in less than a month's time someone else will be living in what we have called home for almost thirty years.
But with autumn temperatures here in Canberra of  17 degrees maximum and 2 degrees minimum for today/tonight and Yamba being 25 degrees and 17 degrees respectively then I know where I want to be come winter!

This morning I did my regular 1.6 kilometre walk and took a photo of the autumn colours now becoming more prevalent each day.
We will miss this aspect of the seasons when we move; deciduous trees are not common on the far north coast and the change from summer to autumn goes almost unnoticed.