Lake Ainsworth the subject of documentary
Lennox Head Community Television (lennoxheadtv.com) will focus its first film project on Lake Ainsworth.
Vanessa Lake and Nick Zammit (pictured above) from the Northern Rivers Conservatorium Arts Centre are participating in a filming course being held in Lismore, run by Andrew Bambach.
They have begun work on documenting the tourist-pulling lake for many reasons aligned with Australian Community Television’s commitment to generating powerful educational legacies for future generations.
Viewers will learn how to cause inspiration through an extraordinary sailing school being run for the handicapped.
Overcoming adversity and stepping beyond circumstances will clearly be observed by Lake Ainsworth’s Ladies Dragonboat team called Abreast who are made up of survivors of breast cancer.
The documentary will also record some of the 150 different bird species, including endangered flaura and fauna.
Vanessa Lake lives close to the lake and was inspired to look deeper into the Aboriginal history and present-day use and its effect on the health and management of this icon.
She began Project Calm Waters for the love of the lake and its future preservation.
Anyone wishing to assist or contribute monetarily are welcome. Please call Vanessa on 6687 6824 for more details.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
The more I sit and think about the way the lake impacted on my life, the more things I come up with.
It was where I learnt to swim, paddle a surfboard, and learnt to sail there in early high school.
A few years later I had my first carton of throw downs with my mates around a driftwood fire on the banks of Lake Ainsworth on one quiet Friday night.
It was always a special place to go to see water birds and native bush that you couldn’t see anywhere else. I think it is great that it is being recognised and awareness is raised so that my children have just as much fun there as I did at their age.