BENNETTS Beach has been the inspiration for more than one incarnation of a Surf Life Saving Club, and rightly so as it is arguably the most beautiful beach in the world. Previous reports in the News Of The Area have…
THE boardwalk at Pindimar is undergoing much-needed repair. The makeshift plywood patches have been exchanged for a more solid composite grating material that should withstand the local conditions better than the old wooden ones. Advertise with News of The Area…
GLOBAL trivia made for the warmest winter night, as the people of Pindimar, Bundabah and surrounds gathered at the fire station for their ‘Around the World’ trivia event on Saturday, 8 July. The theme was beautifully buttressed by the cornucopia…
ELECTRIC vehicle owners in Hawks Nest have a new charging location on Booner Street, just down the road from the beach. Installed in the last fortnight, the EVX pole-mounted charge station came about after a previously-reported partnership between Essential Energy…
PROFESSOR Dr Kelvin Kong has taken out the Indigenous person of the year at a recent ceremony in Brisbane during NAIDOC week. Dr Kong is an otolaryngologist (a specialist of ears, throat, head and neck) and is a proud Worimi…
SILT will block the Myall River by Christmas, a ferry skipper said this week. Noel Gaunt, the skipper of the Y-Knot ferry that regularly plies the route between Tea Gardens and Nelson Bay, said there are now multiple areas of…
CALLING citizen ecologists to take part in the ‘swift parrot search’ beginning on Saturday. The 2023 swift parrot mainland season is well and truly underway, but only a few birds have been seen in NSW, and not many at all…
I MENTIONED in an earlier article that we are being visited on a more regular basis by a most welcome fish from the north. The spangled emperor is a beautiful fish, tenacious on the end of a line and multicolored.…
BROUGHTON Island has been a fishing paradise for as long as records have been kept. Firstly, the Worimi people, followed by local Europeans and the Chinese in the mid-to-late 1800’s, then the Italians from 1893. Greeks set up small fishing…
THIS year, Dry July is celebrating its 15th year of operation, a colossal milestone from humble origins. The purpose of Dry July, aside from participants going sober, is to raise funds for people with cancer. From its inception in 2008,…