Australian Sojourn – April-May 2026

Part 6: Gulmarrad, Maclean, and Brooms Head

I’ve spent the last three days in Gulmarrad with my dear friends Mike and Bernie. Two of their adult children – Iggy and Mim – traveled from the Gold Coast and Sydney respectively to see me. How wonderful was that!?

Following are images of my time in Gulmarrad and two nearby places – Maclean and Brooms Head.

The hoodie I’m wearing in a number of these images is in support of Butch Ware’s Green Party candidacy for California Governor. (For more on this, click here, here, and here).

Above: With Bernie, Iggy, and, Mike – Saturday, April 25, 2026.

Above and below: ANZAC Day in Maclean – Saturday, April 25, 2026.

Above and below: Maclean vignettes – April 2026.

Above and below: With Bernie and Iggy at Brooms Head – Sunday, April 26, 2026.

Above: With Mim, Mike, and Bernie – Monday, April 27, 2026.





Right: Wearing the colourful necklace that Mim bought for me in a Maclean op-shop. I just love it! . . . And the backdrop perfectly compliments it!





NEXT: Brisbane, Montville,
and the Sunshine Coast

For the previous posts in the Australian Sojourn – April-May 2026 series, see:
• Sydney and Newcastle
• Gulmarrad
• Guruk
• Gunnedah
• Armidale

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Journey to Gulmarrad (2025)
• Happy Birthday, Bernie! (2024)
• Mooloolaba (2023)
• In Northern Rivers Country (2019)
• Townsville (2016)
• A Journey to Northern Rivers Country (2015)
• A Bushland Wedding (2011)
• The Australian Floods of 2011
• Rising Waters
• “Flooded-In But Loving Life”
• In Maclean, an End to the “Siege”

Images: Michael J. Bayly and friends.