October
13
2007
13
2007
Nimbin to Macksville
It was late Friday by the time we got the solar install finished, we decided to pack up ready to head south in the morning. At about 7pm the sounds of air raid sirens started sounding, they we loud enough to be easily heard all over the town of Nimbin, the sirens sounded every few minutes in sequences of 3 blasts. With in 10 minutes of the sirens ending, we could hear police car sirens sounding. Wow, this is one spooky town…. we couldn’t see where the police cars were but could see many car lights heading out all town exits and into the surrounding hills. By this time we were getting quite spooked and Jayson was feeling quite uneasy, so we hooked up the car and trailer, started up the motorhome and headed out of town.
As we drove through the main street, drunks from the pub are trying to wave us down and were running out toward us.
Its certainly a town with a difference, we took a walk up the main street one early afternoon at about 2pm, the main drag is about 200m long, and in that short stroll I asked if I was wanting to buy marijuana twice. People smoked it freely in public places including the local swimming pool.
There were homes with signage at the front stating they were a party or music house, quests welcome.
The homes in Nimbin were commonly very old and run down, many people lived in unregistered vans/buses with make ship shelter and awnings, some living just under canvas only. I learned from speaking with locals that much of the population reside in community tittles, where land is owned by a community group, residents purchase the right to set up home in the community but only once the community have agreed to let the vendor/purchaser to complete a sale. The purchaser must prove to the community that they have some thing to offer or are a going to be a benefit to that community. From what I hear, the hills are home to many hippies living in all kinds of hand made shelters.
An interesting life style and town, but its not for us….. back on the road we head for the coast road via Lismore, back on the Pacific hwy we find a road side stop for the night, as we pull in we see other travelers had set up for the night, this certainly felt like a more comfortable place to park up for the night. The next morning we continued south with a few stops on the way to get fuel, groceries, etc until we reached Macksville where we decided to set up for a stay over by the river.
Damian 
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