The Trawlers.
Yamba is a small port city on the Clarence River in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales. It's significance of a trading port was more so in the 19th and 20th centuries when towns like it were more isolated without good roads or rail links. Not that Yamba was ever linked to the rail network although it did have minor narrow gauge railways to several quarries for stone for building the river mouth breakwater*. It still has a pilot boat attached as in more recent times it was the provisioning port for coastal type shipping to either Norfolk or Lord Howe Islands (can't remember which) and I am not quite sure if this continues.
It's certainly the base for a fleet of prawn trawlers and they tie up at the marina just out of town and also further up the river. In fact it has the second largest fishing fleet in New South Wales.
These two trawlers had not long before disgorged the night's catch. Seafood in Yamba is as good as it gets.
* There are some excellent articles in Light Railway Research Society journals. Lines extended from Angourie to Yamba with separate systems for the breakwater build at Iluka across the river mouth and beach mineral sands at Angourie.
The Trawlers.
Yamba is a small port city on the Clarence River in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales. It's significance of a trading port was more so in the 19th and 20th centuries when towns like it were more isolated without good roads or rail links. Not that Yamba was ever linked to the rail network although it did have minor narrow gauge railways to several quarries for stone for building the river mouth breakwater*. It still has a pilot boat attached as in more recent times it was the provisioning port for coastal type shipping to either Norfolk or Lord Howe Islands (can't remember which) and I am not quite sure if this continues.
It's certainly the base for a fleet of prawn trawlers and they tie up at the marina just out of town and also further up the river. In fact it has the second largest fishing fleet in New South Wales.
These two trawlers had not long before disgorged the night's catch. Seafood in Yamba is as good as it gets.
* There are some excellent articles in Light Railway Research Society journals. Lines extended from Angourie to Yamba with separate systems for the breakwater build at Iluka across the river mouth and beach mineral sands at Angourie.