Ballina 28 September 2011

Moved down the coast, heading for Bellingen to go to the Global Music Festival. On the way, we stopped into Newrybar, as Laura enjoyed staying there with Nat. It was a hamlet rather than a village, with a fancy cafe and an expensive antique store – you could imagine people from Byron Bay flocking there on the weekend for a cosy meal and an overpriced ‘bargain’. Stayed outside Ballina for the night. Ballina has really grown since we were last there and is now like a crowded Shellharbour. It is interesting to see how the once small coastal towns are developing and they way they embrace (or reject) change.