Human Whale returns to Fingal Bay
THE ‘Human Whale’ is returning to Port Stephens on Sunday 16 July at Fingal Bay Beach and organisers are calling on all and sundry to turn out for the event. The Human Whale event aims, at noon, to have a…
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Record year For Marine Rescue
MORE people are relying on Marine Rescue NSW than ever before. As accounts were tallied for the financial year’s end, administration volunteers noted a 7.5-per-cent increase in rescues. It’s a new record, a solid increase on the previous greatest number…
Electric Vehicles can now charge on Booner St
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…
Dr Kelvin Kong has taken out the Indigenous person of the year
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…
Myall River blocking up, no immediate plans to dredge
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…
Have you seen this parrot?
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…
Cruising with the whales, a photographic soiree
THE new whaling is capturing the magnificence of the humpback whales as they travel up and down the humpback highway on camera and of course sharing the magnificent shots captured of these magnificent whales which have come back from the…
Medowie Probus Club Members Take a Cruise On The Historic Wangi Queen
THE Combined Probus Club of Medowie had a wonderful day out on the Wangi Queen, sailing from Lemon Tree Passage around the beautiful waters of Nelson Bay and enjoying a sumptuous barbecue lunch. As the crew swapped tall trees and…
Stinker’s Fishin’: Increasing Numbers of Spangled Emperor off the coast
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.…
Stinker’s History: The many reasons to visit Broughton Island
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…