7/01/2009 | JETSKI patrols have been spotted on Great Lakes beaches with the start of the summer holidays.
Members of the Lower North Coast Branch of Surf Life Saving NSW started the patrols across out region during early December.
7/01/2009 | TWO guys paddling from Byron to Bondi with little experience weren’t thrilled with last week’s headlines.
‘Shark horror: snorkeller dead, kayakers menaced’ – Sydney Morning Herald.
31/12/2008 | SURFING
Boomerang Beach Boardriders
2008 annual presentation
24/12/2008 | THE 2008 Stramit NSW Country Surf Life Saving Championships have been launched at Port Macquarie’s Tacking Point SLSC.
The event will run from January 16 to 18 and will attract competitors from every non-metropolitan surf life saving branch in the state.
24/12/2008 | A STUDY by Surf Life Saving Australia and the University of NSW found more than half of Australian beachgoers could not identify a rip when shown a picture of one.
24/12/2008 | GOING for a job? Forget the agencies and pep talks - just get yourself some fighting moves.
A Forster Taekwondo trio has not only earned black belts, but instructor Fay Shacklock thinks they’ve got a leg-up in the job market.
17/12/2008 | SOME tennis players keep their A games even as the birthday candles mount – just ask Martina Navratoliva.
Five Forster Tennis Club aces slot right into that category, and they’ve been rewarded with spots in the NSW Seniors team for the Australian Championships in Adelaide next month.
17/12/2008 | A PLAYER reshuffle led to Forster Tuncurry’s modest results at the State Touch Football Carnival, according to a senior player.
The club fielded three squads at the annual Port Macquarie tournament.
17/12/2008 | FORSTER’S Steve Southwell broke Wendy Moon’s long standing record at 800yds on a countback on Saturday.
Southwell shot 50.9 then a perfect 50.10 to beat Moon’s record of 50.10 and then 50.9.
17/12/2008 | JUST a year and a half into their BMX careers, three Forster brothers have their sights trained on the world titles.
Will Moran (9) and brothers Oli (6) and Levi (4) took up the sport made famous by Nicole Kidman only after a nudge from some mates.
10/12/2008 | HALLIDAYS Point Social Triathlon Group member Mick Doney has finished fourth in the 60-69 year age group in the prestigious Ironman event held on Sunday at Busselton WA.
10/12/2008 | AVOCA Surf Club dominated the Blueys Cellars Masters for the fourth year in a row, with a complete performance across every discipline.
Forster and host club Pacific Palms weren’t
10/12/2008 | AFTER an imposing first-up win, Forster’s Sam Schumann was knocked out in Friday’s second round of the Australian Junior Surfing Titles.
3/12/2008 | SPORTS stereotypes should be adopted with extreme care, if at all.
Not long ago, an African American couldn’t possibly be world number one at tennis, or golf. No Indian could be a genuine fast bowler. No white Australian kid could be first pick in the NBA draft.
3/12/2008 | THE key, apparently, is breathing.
You remember that on your stomach in the cold brush, in a patch you cleared in the snow. You close an eye. A buck stands rigid in the crosshairs, nostrils flaring, sniffing danger. Amongst the pine needles, a sleek rifle slides quietly on its stand.
19/11/2008 | THREE Great Lakes paddlers have made it into the State team to compete at Nationals in Tasmania in January.
It follows a solid performance at the final State Slalom selection race at Penrith.
19/11/2008 | “I WANT to be undefeated as a power breaker for 25 years.”
No, Fay Shacklock didn’t mean 25 years from now, it soon emerged.
12/11/2008 | A FORSTER team came sixth in its division and 13th overall in Sunday’s Port Macquarie Half Ironman Triathlon, leading home a healthy Great Lakes contingent.
Team Camnix finished the unforgiving 1.9 kilometre swim, 90.1km bike ride and 21.1km run in just under five hours 12 minutes.
5/11/2008 | FORSTER’S Bed Godwin, Wallabi Point’s Joel Reading and Old Bar’s Oscar Scanes scored top-five finishes in their divisions of the NSW surfing circuit.
5/11/2008 | DESPITE a lag in numbers, the weekend’s Forster Junior Triathlon confirmed its status as a nursery for the sport by unveiling a new generation of stars at Elizabeth Parade Reserve.
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