Festival at Brunswick Heads (far north coast). It's holiday time and wanderlust is around. From the past is a prosaic photo but the Fish and Chips Festival was anything but - with a name like that.
The Woodchop carnival was for talent of all ages, gender or nationality, for example, a New Zealander, Sheree Taylor, was All-Round Lumber Jill title winner at the Lumberjack World Championship in the USA.
Guess what? A fishing competition was the other attraction. (Byron Shire News)
The timber blocks for the wood chop are of plantation timber and are of a certain standard and are covered and dampened with water before the events.
Brunswick Heads was bursting with holiday campers and caravaners and appeared to be in the style of a holiday town with an original flavour complete with a hugh tent run by the evangelical church folk who seem to appear, hear and there, during the holidays, to reachout to young people. The town is not far from the deep North.
In contrast, Byron, the next port of call, is nice but is a different kettle of fish.

ANZAC Day

Anzac Day is an occasion for war memorial services. (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) From this country, with a very small population (as with others) a whole generation of young men, from the smallest country town upwards, were marched into battles on the other side of the world. From the Boer War onwards.

The sculptures are central to the war memorial cultural centre in Laman Street, Newcastle.
(At one time they were known as him & her)

The Royal Hotel

Australiana: Royal Hotel in small heritage village of Bungendore, dating back to the 1830's which is quite early hereabouts.
MUDCHOOKS: (Chooks aka chickens) After 100 years the town has a Rugby team once again and just reached the grand final only to be beaten.
In another match, this weekend, they challenged a revived Wallaby team, the Silver Foxes, with some of the Wallaby legends. Chooks v foxes!
Word gets around because Canterbury International (NZ) is supporting the Mudchooks, naturally enough.

Otherwise, the Newcastle League Great, legend Andrew (Joey) Johns, has finished his career due to injury. Our team, The Knights will have to move on.

Meeting of the Waters

Julia is away at present, so I've been posting picture for her in her absence.

The nearest I've ever been to anywhere in Australia, let alone Newcastle, is New Zealand.

This picture was taken at the very North of the North Island and shows the meeting of the waters of the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean.