Culburra is a favourite spot for surfers (birthday (suit ;-) party 🎊 characters) and the home patch for famous pros like the Wright family. Culburra Surf Beach and it's neighbour Warrain Beach are joined by Penguin Head
Everyone knows John Hatton 🎩 and his Jervis bay family. He was the Independent state member for the South Coast from 1973 until 1995 and is most famously remembered for forcing a reluctant state government to set up a Royal Commission into the NSW police that exposed systemic corruption. The Police Commissioner was forced to resign, and widespread reform of the force followed. Hatton often put himself in danger as he exposed organised crime and government corruption.
Well before the infamous shonks of the 1980s business world, colonial Australia fell under the spell of a wealthy and charismatic fraudster named Benjamin Boyd. Labelled an "entrepreneur" by the Australian Dictionary of Biography, this 45-year-old Scotsman arrived in Sydney to great fanfare in 1842 with a fleet of ships and a self-initiated bank providing bottomless credit, resulting in a staggering land-grab throughout southern Australia.
The jewel in his 1540-square kilometre squattocracy was a settlement on the shores of Twofold Bay, just shy of the whaling port of Eden on the NSW Sapphire Coast. Naming the town in his own inflated honour, Boyd envisaged Boydtown as the future capital of Australia, with the elegant Seahorse Inn the centrepiece of both the township and social life between Sydney and Melbourne.
Benjamin Boyd was Australia's first slave trader – a practice deemed both illegal and anathema amongst polite society, even in those less enlightened times.
NO WATER, NO LIFE: That’s the bottom line concerning one of the most viscous liquids in the universe, but, according to biologist/M.D. Michael Denton on HillFaiththis morning, there are many more miraculous characteristics of water that most folks don’t know.
A tiny town in regional Queensland is being overrun by aggressive kangaroos news.com.au
I asked Emma Thompson about orgasms, ageing and motherhood lies. Her answers will change you
The Iron Throne has played a central role in Game of Thrones. Not only are the opposing houses fighting for control of it, but also because it looks incredible. In Episode 1 of House of the Dragon, King Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine) cuts himself on the Iron Throne. While it’s easy to write this off as him simply slicing himself accidentally on one of the blades, the moment means more than the show’s letting on.