THE NOT SO OLD MAN AND THE SEA Back in the early days in Byron Bay, none of us had much money. My workmate at Norco Co.Op, Harvey Goldsmith’s wife’s 21st. birthday was coming up, so we decide to go out in the boat to… Read More »Tales from the sea
It’s funny as you get older, we all seem to have a closer connection to the past. Recently we have posted a selection of historic Byron Bay photos online to an overwhelming response. This is part one. The majority of the images are from Max… Read More »Photos from the Past (part one)
Byron Bay local Adam Collett sent us in these images from Byron Bay in 1985. We love taking a walk down memory lane and we hope these images jog a few for you, including the old Community Centre building, the Lighthouse goats and the old… Read More »Byron Bay in 1985…
Imagine, if you will, kissing your loved ones goodbye and taking to the high seas. Now imagine that the wide blue yonder that lays before you isn’t the Tasman or a coast-hugging jaunt from Byron to Sydney but the planet’s largest expanse of water, the… Read More »Las Balsas: Ballina’s Real Adventure Story
This evening I received this email: Hi Kirra, I took these photos in 1973 . There was a low off the coast and a 2metre tidal surge. I lived at Broken Head and when I went for a surf check at main beach on the way… Read More »1973 – Storm Surge
The Byron Bay Jetty in 1950 The Byron Bay Jetty’s Words and Photos by Max Pendergast There were actually two jetty’s built in Byron Bay, the first in 1888 at the top end of Jonson St, where the small Groin is now. Unfortunately the 1888… Read More »The Byron Bay Jettys
Today, you wouldn’t be able to rent a place at Watego’s for a night for $200, but back in early days, Wategos Beach was considered “too far out of town” and “too expensive”. Just imagine if you owned a piece of land there today after… Read More »Land at Wategos for $200?
It doesn’t take any words to be transported back to the ‘hey day’ surfing moments of the 60’s, with these amazing images from Max Pendergast. A couple of the surfing names featured in these photos from the era are Derek Beckner (above), Brian Campbell, Doug… Read More »Surfing in those 60’s
Prior to 1979 all hotels in N.S.W. were closed on Sunday. If a number of the old hardened drinkers, (I wouldn’t say drunks, just the older guys that you might see sitting around pubs of a day with a 7oz. beer happily talking stories and… Read More »The cultural & debating society
We should go to Lennox today, after we pick up the brush-cutter.’ This is the good wife speaking at about 5am this morning. Things begin quietly out here – plans are easily made – the brush-cutter (whipper-snipper) is needed because of the rampant invasion of… Read More »Lennox be my Lover
