Ballina Information Blog

A few weeks back while driving between Lennox and Ballina I noticed three words in large letters painted in red on The Coast Road just north of the Flat Rock turnoff. I always seemed to miss reading the strange words as I passed it every day. Either it came up on me too quick as [...]

PICTURE: Cape Byron provides an ideal whale-watching venue. Ballina Shire residents wanting to learn more about the annual humpback whale migration can do so by attending the free Whale Information Morning at Cape Byron Lighthouse on Sunday, June 18, from 9.30 to 11am. The migration has begun in recent weeks with pods of whales passing [...]

Ballina Shire Council is undertaking a shire-wide community-based heritage study. The council says the study, to be held this year and next, aims to identify and document buildings, places and moveable heritage items (relics and objects or records) in the shire considered to be significant to our community. “A heritage study investigates the historical context of a [...]

NSW Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann reports on the local fishing scene … Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says the bream are starting to come into the river but they’re still mostly fairly small, although there have been a couple of better fish. At night on the big tides baits like mullet and mullet gut [...]

A winter highlight in this region is the annual whale migration, and whale-watchers can expect to see the glorious sights soon. The Department of Environment and Conservation has reported sightings off Coffs Harbour. National Parks says the two species most commonly seen in our waters are humpback and southern right. Good spots in the Ballina [...]

NSW Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann reports on the local fishing … Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says there have still been some good hauls of whiting, from the lower river right up to Woodburn. The further upstream you get, the less the fish want worms and the more partial they are to yabbies and [...]

NSW Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann reports on where they’re biting around Ballina and Lennox Head … Bruce Legge at Dave’s Bait Shop says the whiting are still going well up to Pimlico Island on live bloodworms, with a few good flatties to 5kg coming from North Creek up to Pimlico. A few school jew [...]

There’s promise of a rising swell this weekend as a result of an intense low pressure system of the coast of south-eatern Australia. North Wall at Ballina had a rideable swell up to 1.5m today, with smaller waves at Flat Rock and Boulder Beach. Lennox Point could be the place to be if the big [...]

New South Wales Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann reports on the local fishing scene … Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says whiting are still doing quite well around North Creek, the Town Reach and up around Pimlico Island, even on the smaller tides this week. Flatties are still hanging around, with live bait going well [...]

The huge seas of mid-week have abated, but unfortunately the swell has dropped away to almost nothing. Waves to a metre yesterday were chopped up by a northerly, although the forecast this weekend is for south to south-east winds. North Wall and Ballina’s beaches look to be the pick of the spots this weekend.