Training course at Yamba

I've just returned from the airport again - this time it was the domestic terminal for a flight to Coffs Harbour, 1 hour up the coast. This was for a training day that I was running for a company near Yamba, on the Clarence River, who operate a series of regional community and tourism websites, as well as their own camping & caravan site.

Sue drove me to the airport on Tuesday afternoon and I took the short flight north, although found myself sitting on the wrong side of the plane, with a view of the ocean rather than the NSW coastline! I was collected by the customer at Coffs Harbour and then had a 1.5 hour drive to Yamba, where they were putting me up in one of the cabins on the campsite. Since time was tight, I started the training that evening for the 5 people who were attending and finished about 9.30.

We had an 8am start today, but I took the chance to walk across the camping grounds to the river first thing, past a group of grazing kangaroos. The camp site was very quiet at this time of year and the whole area was very rural and peaceful in the morning sunshine, plus the river was impressively wide - one of the largest in the country. The training session then continued until 1.30 when I was driven back to the airport for the afternoon flight back to Sydney, where I was lucky to have a good view of the harbour this time as we came in to land against the setting sun.

Sue was there to meet me outside arrivals and we had a slower journey back across the city at rush hour. We've now got a day off before heading back to the airport first thing on Friday to collect Caroline's friends who are leaving the UK shortly.