Amazing news has come through this morning….. Splendour In The Grass is heading back to Byron Bay this July!!! The festival will take place back at its old home of Belongil Fields over the last weekend in July – 27th, 28th, 29th. Byron Shire Mayor Jan Barham has welcomed Splendour back to Byron Bay for 2012. “Splendour’s home is Byron Bay and there is defined benefit that the festival delivers to the area, especially in… Continue Reading…

Local Byron Bay organisation, Positive Change for Marine Life (PCFML), have recently returned from three months in Japan where they were working towards viable alternatives to unsustainable marine industries, with a primary focus on the dolphin and porpoise hunts on the east coast of the island of Honshu. They were also provided an opportunity to present at the “Global Conference for a Nuclear Free World” in Yokohama and continue to collaborate with a turtle rehabilitation… Continue Reading…

It is the official introduction of a new day, the sun being the first thing to pierce the darkness left by the day before. It’s Day 6 of The Endless Sunrise, as fifty photographers wait in anticipation with their fingers suppressed on the shutter, hints of grey cloud cover threaten memories of what was.  Then finally, another majestic golden sun rises into the dull morning sky casting sunbeams as it commanded court with the blue… Continue Reading…

Day 4 brought us more rain and overcast weather, but again it didnt stop our dedicated army of 55 photographers. As we walk through the park in Suffolk we pass fellow Endless Sunrise participants racing through the rain with their camera covered in jacket to capture their perfect shot.  Everyday, it is impossible to avoid running into a photographer waiting for a mere  glimpse of the golden sphere we are all waiting on. Regardless of… Continue Reading…

Kirstin Scholtz THE ENDLESS SUNRISE – DAY 1 – MIKEY ANDERSSON Kirra Cheers Kate Holmes

The Australia Day Paddle is POSTPONED. Stay tuned here for new dates and updates. Read on for info on the event. Each year on Australia Day 26th January, surfers have gathered to have a fun filled day, and to paddle across Byron Bay for the Australia Day Paddle. The Paddle is from Wategos Beach to the Byron Bay Surf Life Saving Club on Main Beach, and is organised by volunteers. Since starting in 2009, there have… Continue Reading…

So often we walk into a supermarket, a farmers market, a convenience store and ‘buy buy buy’ without much thought of the effort it takes to get a product to the consumer shelf. Same goes for a banana. ‘Banana Craig’ is one unique Byron Bay character, an early rising, surf frothing ocean warrior, a dedicated dad (unless the surf is on), a dune dancing photographer, and local organic banana farmer. All round legend. He lives… Continue Reading…

I may be slightly biased, but who wouldn’t be if one of the Spell sisters was your fiance? Anyway, I’ve always been intrigued by how sisters Elizabeth (my fiance) and Isabella came to be running Spell in Byron Bay’s Industrial Estate, a wonderlust world of feathers, leather and turquoise. In the 1960s and 70s their father was a leather craftsman and their mother was a potter, painter and wove brightly coloured threads on a loom.… Continue Reading…