Return to the 70's

Today, because of the wind and rain we decided to "return to the 70's" and drove up the
to Nimbin, the home of the hippies and it was like stepping back in time. Even the twenty somethings looked like they did in the 70's along with lots of older hippies looking exactly the same... perhaps wearing the same clothes... the shops seemed to sell exactly the same things that one would have found in the 70's... though I did buy a very nice porcelain (thrown) bowl made by a local ceramist.
Had to leave the Nimbin Museum, which was very interesting, because out the back there were a couple of youngsters smoking those funny cigarettes! I don't think I have smelt that since the 70's!
But, the countryside is really beautiful with the rolling GREEN hills and dramatic mountains, which today had their tops covered in cloud. The Nimbin Rocks just out of town, are spectaclar, the remains of something, probably a volcano plug that just stick straight up out of the surrounding slope of the mountain. They are quite high with lots of holes where the softer rock has weathered.
All the countryside is just so GREEN, all the way along the coast the paddocks are so lush and the green is so  bright, lovely to see and we are not complaining about the rain, just learning to live with it! - but the locals tell us that they have had 6 months without rain before all this rain arrived.
Staying in a caravan park with good facilities just south of Ballina. Tomorrow we will go to Lennox Head and hope to paddle in a fresh water lake there.