Billy's gone fishin...

On display in the Yamba Museum is a recently restored 13ft skiff built in the early 1900s, by Billy Black. While representative of many small boats plying the Clarence at the end of the 19th Century, there are now very few remaining today.

This exhibition will take visitors back to the early days of settlement in Yamba when the river was the only viable means of transport until roads could be cleared to link small villages. Small river boats were equivalent to the modern day motor car as they served much of the same daily functions: visiting, getting children to school, going to church or shopping at the local store.