THREE FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
THE PACIFIC HOTEL, YAMBA
FIRST UP, if anyone can tell me just why a pub perched on the eastern seaboard is called the “Pacific” or indeed why the highway along the coast has the same name, please let me know.
Just don’t say it somehow relates to an ocean of the same name. The Pacific Ocean doesn’t touch Australia, doesn’t come close. When you dive into the water at Bondi or Broadbeach, you’re jumping into the Tasman Sea; the Pacific’s way, way over the horizon!
Maybe there was some Sir Lachlan Pacific in our past whom I don’t know about or perhaps it’s an adaptation of an indigenous name for the place that I’ve not heard. Whatever, if you’re across it, please send all correspondence to Stu who’s got nothing better to do and he’ll pass it on! (Ha! Ed.)
The pub’s perched on top of the cliffs not far south of the lighthouse and the views
