Welcome to the North Coast of NSW. Kick your feet up and stay a while.
The sturdy Meccano-style construction of the Wardell Lift span Bridge across the Richmond River marks this little township in many driver’s minds. Back in the 1850’s, Wardell was a cedar-getter’s settlement known as Blackwall, and it boomed on the fabulous timbers which were the gold of this region. Sailing vessels …
The surfers know Lennox Head for its internationally famous right hand point break, and the hang-gliders love the place for the sensational views when they take off from Pat Morton Lookout and many generations of children will know the tea tree freshwater lake which formed the nucleus of so many …
The rapidly increasing demand for furniture in the growing middle classes of Victorian England was one of the prime causes of the development of the town of Ballina! The Richmond Valley had become the main source of the prized ‘red gold’ of cedar, and although the colonials used it for …
By mid-March each year, the roads leading into and around this pretty country town are a purple haze with the flowering of the distinctive purple-toned tibouchinas, Alstonville‘s signature tree. Bred from the native lasiandra decades ago by a local man, the late Ken Dunstan, the tibouchina thrives on the rich …
A Byron Bay locality name, Suffolk Park adjoins Tallow Beach and this proximity has led to the area becoming very popular with professionals, artists and writers who enjoy the advantages without the traffic and tourism of the main town. Tallow Beach retains its natural beauty thanks to building restrictions, and …
Back in the late 1960’s when American crooner Pat Boone was spruiking the radical new concept of a resort and recreation residential development on what had been just some well-sited farms, locals were somewhat bemused. But the picturesque pastoral landscape bounded by the Brunswick River to the south, Billinudgel to …
At the Pacific Highway turn-off now market by a selection of totem poles topped by a very large pelican there used to be an arrow-shaped sign pointing the way and declaring “Mullumbimby – biggest little town in Australia”. The alternative lifestyle movement of the early seventies brought a whole range …
The large timber pub which dominates the architecture of the little village of Billinudgel was for many years famed for its publican, the redoubtable Ma Ring, Australia’s oldest publican. The area was settled in the late 19th century and the construction of a railway siding in 1910 was the catalyst …
Often seen as the smaller and quieter cousin of Byron Bay, and just 20 km to the north, Brunswick Heads has rediscovered its heart after the increasingly busy Pacific Highway was re-routed away from the centre of town in 1998. With a pretty river setting, which provides a commercial fishing boat …