Bruce from Dave’s Bait Shop reports on a good run of whiting up around Pimlico Island on bloodworms but they are also taking beach worms. Try along the Town Reach and in North Creek in the early evening for whiting and some flathead.
Some school jew from the ferry up to Wardell after dark.
Quite a few […]
There’s a messy easterly swell of about three foot today, but the sea conditions are about to change.
The forecast for this weekend is for a low pressure system to move down the Queensland coast, and it should bring onshore winds and plenty of rain.
Seas above six feet are predicted, so conditions should suit only the […]
The Summerland Bowls Series has been an annual event at the Cherry Street Bowling Club in Ballina over the Christmas-New Year holiday period for many years and attracts some of the best bowlers in Australia.
This year will be no different, with the likes of Kelvin Kerkow, Mark Casey, Shane Globits and Mathew Pietersen taking to […]
New South Wales schools surfing team manager Steve Watts, pictured, believes there are more Mick Fannings and Stephanie Gilmores coming through the ranks.
Steve, a teacher at Southern Cross K-12 School at East Ballina, recently oversaw the NSW team’s convincing win in the national school surfing titles at Victor Harbour in South Australia.
It was his sixth […]
Ballina artist David Mackay Harrison has reopened his East Ballina gallery in a major refurbishment.
And the Mackay Harrison Galleries at the Angels Beach estate in East Ballina now has on show artworks from some of Australia’s leading artists.
Also on show are David’s own bronze sculptures which are cast at his Southern Cross Industrial Estate foundry.
The […]
Today we launch the Surf Safe Summer Campaign, courtesy of Australian Lifeguard Services’ Northern NSW Lifeguard Co-ordinator Stephen Leahy. Lifeguards will be patrolling 39 beaches in northern NSW every day until the end of the school holidays.
LIFEGUARD PATROLLED BEACHES:
Tweed Shire: Duranbah/Flagstaff, Fingal, Cudgen, Salt Resort, Casuarina, Cabarita, Hastings, Pottsville.
Byron Shire and Cape Byron Trust: South […]
Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says the whiting are getting even better up around Pimlico on the big tides, with bloodworms the ace bait.
Also a few in North Creek and around the sailing club in the evenings. Flatties have been all right in the lower reaches and along the Porpoise Wall, with a few upstream […]
“Keep an eye on your driver” is the message to all passengers travelling through the State’s north this holiday season.
Operation Safe Arrival 2007 runs from 0001 hours on Friday 21st December, 2007 to 2359 hours on Friday 4th January 2008.
Double demerit points apply for all speeding and seatbelt offences between 21 December and 1 January.
Northern […]
Southern Cross University has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to monitor the activities of Japan’s whaling fleet in the Antarctic and to consider international legal challenges.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, announced yesterday that a ship and aircraft would be sent to […]
Ballina Shire Council is one of 50 councils and communities around Australia that have adopted a humpback whale as part of the Humpback Icon Project IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare).
“Tragically this announcement comes within days of the Government of Japan’s whaling fleet’s arrival at the killing grounds of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary […]
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