The Palm Lakes Ponds and the Vespa comes home.

(Note that all photos enlarge when clicked)

A fortnight ago we had some really good rainfall, which fell steadily over a couple of days.
The result here at Palm Lakes (Oyster Cove) was the saturation of the low-lying area in the "forest", to the extent that a series of ponds were evident for several days.

The water table in this location is very close to the surface and it doesn't take long for the ponds to develop.

Here's a photo of the same location when it is normally dry........

Today I picked up the Vespa (GT200) from being serviced/carby repairs at Crossroads Motorcycles in Grafton.
It was a superb day - clear sunny sky, gentle breeze and just a perfect spring day all round.
I rode home via the Grafton-Lawrence Road and then through Maclean - a marvellous run of some 63 kilometres past canefields and dairy paddocks, with the Clarence River off to the right until Lawrence, where we crossed the river by vehicular ferry and continued to Maclean and then Yamba with the river on our left.

So the scooter has now rejoined the Red Fleet and will be used often now that it is running properly.

We stopped in Maclean for coffee and a sandwich and I clicked the following shots:-

First up is the historic post office building with original Post Master's residence and, next to it, the police station. Both buildings still continue in their roles today.

In the middle of a round-about just to the right of the above photo sits an original derrick once used to load/unload the barges that plied the river.

A shot of the Honda Jazz and the Vespa, parked neatly as we strolled off for a cuppa.
My wife was driving the Jazz, in which we travelled from Yamba to pick up the Vespa.
As I was removing my helmet and gloves, a local lady asked if she could take the scooter home because she thought it was "cute"! Any thoughts I may have harboured of striking a macho pose went out the window!

This evening we fired up the b-b-q and dined casually.

It's a hard life but we put up with it!