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MEET OUR CONTRIBUTORS JANICE CREENAUNE

is a retired English teacher of 35 years, who has lived and worked in the Illawarra, and completed three year-long overseas teacher exchanges. A wife and mother of three, she sees the life of a retiree as an evolution, something to be cherished, enjoyed. Janice is a volunteer for PKD Australia and her interests include travel, Lettersto-the Editor SMH, letterpress printing and film study. Janice writes articles about talented retirees – see page 22.

MATT O’DONNELL

is a Coledale resident who has worked in the Illawarra as a veterinarian for over 20 years. He is a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (small animal surgery chapter). With his wife, Jenny, Matt runs Bulli’s Northern Illawarra Veterinary Hospital (call 4238 8575). Read his report on page 21.

AMANDA DE GEORGE

is a naturalist, writer and photographer based in the Northern Illawarra. Her passion lies in discovering interesting critters in urban environments and bringing them to the followers of her Facebook and Instagram page Backyard Zoology. Oh, and adventures and naps and wine; she’s passionate about those things too! Read her article about ‘kookabubbas’ on page 20.

is a director of fisheries and natural resource consulting company, Fish Matter, which advises industry, government and NGOs on the sustainable use of fish. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong, and a keen scuba diver, snorkeller, spearfisherman and photographer. See page 29.

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READY, SET, SWIM! The Big Swim of the South, the 2.3km ocean swim from Coalcliff to Stanwell Park, is back on Sunday, March 17! Register at oceanswims.com. Need help? Thirroul swim coach Lawrence Stubbs has some tips. How do you navigate the start and finish of the race? Stay on your feet at the start for as long as you can, start dolphin diving when it’s too deep to run and too shallow to swim. On the way into the finish, swim as far as you can, only stand up when you can’t swim any longer. Talk to the locals about the rips, it may be quicker to get to the first buoy by swimming out through the rip… HOWEVER, unless you’re a seasoned ocean swimmer, do not swim in rips. I’ve seen images of the start of race, it looks challenging? The race start can get hectic as everyone heads at a frantic pace to the first turning-buoy. Seasoned racers will probably take the inside line and accelerate into and out of the buoy, then settle into their long-distance pace as they head to the second buoy. The race to the first buoy causes the pack of swimmers to converge making it a choke point. If you’re not confident with being in a pack heading for the buoy, stay on the outer and take your time. Regardless of how fast you are, do not stop when heading into and round the buoy, and DO NOT breaststroke anytime during the race, you may kick someone in the face. It’s important to sight, say every 9-12 strokes, on the way out to the first buoy. Don’t swim with your head up, it is very energy demanding, your training in the pool has taught you this, right? As you turn the first buoy, sight the next buoy and swim straight to it. If time permits, have a short swim out to the first buoy before the race and look for a landmark on the hill that you can use to take your bearings for the second buoy; it’s easier to see a building or a large tree than it is to see a buoy on the water line. Seasoned athletes tend to swim in a group. Why is that? There are benefits swimming in a pack, try it out in training and get used to it. If you can swim close behind another swimmer’s feet [30cm is great, but up to 3-5m there is still a benefit] or near their side, you’ll find they carry you along, we call this

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drafting. It can reduce your power by around 35%, so find swimmers a little faster and stick on their feet. Try not to touch them, you’re not at the Olympics, it’s very annoying. If you happen to touch them more than once back off or go past them. Deliberate contact is unacceptable in all events; it shouldn’t happen at all in a recreational event, but it does. Unfortunately, some people take themselves “too serious” and get a little heavy handed. Accidents happen, if you contact someone make a point of apologising when you get to the finish. If you become a victim of an overly aggressive swimmer who pushes, try not to retaliate. Gain your composure and continue to swim; focus on your breathing and calm down. How fast should I swim? It’s highly likely you’ll get wrapped up in the speed at the start and go out too hard. If the chance arises, warm up in the water before the race. Swim around 4-6 minutes at variable pace to loosen off and think about speed. You’ll need to learn pacing skills; this will come with experience. If you’ve gone out too hard at the start back off and focus on your technique, then rebuild your speed to a pace you can hold for the distance. What’s the tip on catching the waves? Hopefully you’ve tried this out already. Timing is everything. Look for breaking waves over your shoulder by turning your head a little further when you breathe. The face of the wave needs to be steep, if it is, swim hard and match the wave speed. Keep kicking until you feel it pick you up and you slide down the face – stay streamlined. When you’re on the wave keep one arm out front to steer [and stop you planting your head into a sand bank]. Lift your head to breathe and use your free arm to assist with propulsion, keep going until there is nothing left in the wave. Don’t stop too early, the wave has plenty of energy behind it. When your hands touch the bottom get up and run, hard... Then celebrate. If you’ve been in a battle with a swimmer make sure you shake their hand; it’s the camaraderie that makes our sport so good. n Check out “Stanwell Park Ocean Swim” on Facebook and Instagram. 2515

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The year is off to a good start, Scarborough Boardriders club member Ian Pepper reports. Scarborough Boardriders kicked off their 2019 season with the first pointscore on Sunday, 3 February. More than 100 surfers competed on the day, from under-12s to over-55s as well as another 40-plus micro grommets. The surf was clean early and then the north-east breeze chopped things up somewhat, but it was a great first day, all in all. Top honours in the men’s went to Kalani Ball while the women’s was taken out by Talina Wilson. Registration numbers are strong with 170 currently registered. Registration is still open on liveheats.com/scarborough but this is expected to close in coming months when the maximum number of members is reached (about 180). BOARDRIDERS BATTLE Over the weekend 16-17 February the club competed at the nudie Australian Boardriders Battle Series Final in Newcastle after qualifying second in their zone late in 2018. The event was televised live on Fox Sports all weekend and about 25 members from the club went up to Newcastle to support the team of 10 surfers selected.

The first day was the “seeding” round where four of the surfers competed across different divisions with the following heat results: • Open male – Kalani Ball 3rd • Open female – Talani Wilson 4th • Masters – Nic Squiers 2nd • Junior – Josh Pepper 2nd The second day was the finale, with a tag team competition and $84,000 in prize money up for grabs, including a massive $20,000 for first place. Our strong team of Nic Squiers, Kalani Ball, Fin McLaren, Darcy De Clouett and Kasey Hargreaves fought a great heat against some tough opposition, North Shelley, Maroubra and Eloura. However, finishing 3rd was not enough to progress into the quarter finals and the club bowed out of the competition in equal 13th place. The prize money to be received is not yet available but should contribute nicely to the club’s goals of updating some of their infrastructure in 2019. A new trailer, tent and other items are on the shopping list and various fundraising and grant applications are underway. 2515

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Tradies Helensburgh Sports and Social Golf Club (visit their Facebook page) and Helensburgh Aussie Rules: Northern Districts Australian Sunday Social Golf Club (call Tony on 4294 2696). Football Club, Woonona. www.ndafc.com or the Mountain-biking: Helensburgh Off Road club’s Facebook page (Northern Districts Tigers). Cycling Club manages the tracks behind Rex Bowling: Scarborough Wombarra Bowling Club Jackson oval (a first for the Illawarra!) and holds hosts lawn bowls, barefoot bowls and more. Visit track days. www.horcc.com.au or Facebook. www.bowlo.com.au or Facebook (Scarborough Rugby league: Thirroul RLFC – www. Wombarra Bowling Club- “The Bowlo”). thirroulbutchers.com or Facebook. Men and women’s bowls at Thirroul Bowling Northern Districts RLFC – www.northsbulldogs. Leagues and Recreation Club (call 4267 1148). com.au or the club’s Facebook page. Cricket: Northern Districts Butchers have strong Soccer: Coledale Waves Junior Football Club, seniors (ndcc.nsw.cricket.com.au) and juniors, www.coledalewaves.com.au; Thirroul JFC, www. Facebook ‘Northern Districts Junior Cricket Club’. thirroulfootball.com.au; Helensburgh Thistles Golf: Boomerang Public Golf Course hosts Soccer Club, www.helensburghsoccer.org. 2515

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All funds raised will go to Australia’s first and only Vanishing White Matter stem cell research project, currently underway at Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) at Wollongong University. Nyree Saxby reports.

Mollymook’s Holly Burns (left) and Woonona’s Chloe Saxby have a rare, terminal brain disease called Vanishing White Matter.

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pleasure to draw and get to know over the course of creating the book, definitely one of my favourite characters! My other main inspiration was family, wanting to create a comic that I could read and enjoy with my kids when they’re a bit older. My son was 2 at the time and family plays a large part within the story itself, so it felt natural to draw from my own experiences.

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What ages is the book for? It’s a YA (Young Adult) comic so it’s aimed at readers 12+, though there’s lots in there that will appeal to older readers too. The story deals with themes of family, loss, growing up, responsibility. These kind of universal themes that we can all relate to but, it’s all wrapped in a fantastical action-packed adventure so it’s a lot of fun too!

Tell us about writer Norm Harper and how you worked together. Norm’s a really fantastic (Eisner award nominated!) writer and I had a such a great time working with Haphaven is the latest creation by Austinmer artist Louie him! He runs a small publisher in the States called Joyce, star of our May 2018 ‘Comic Gong’ cover. 2515 reports. Karate Petshop Comics that focuses on quality, all-ages content. He originally contacted me via Congrats on the new graphic novel! email with an outline of Haphaven to see if it was What are you most proud of? something I’d be interested in and the more I Thanks! I’m just proud of the whole thing really! sketched and played around with ideas for the The final book has come together so nicely, from book, the more I really, really wanted to draw it. Norm Harper’s story to my own work, the lettering Luckily Norm agreed! Since he’s based in the US from Oceano Ransford and the final book design we’ve never actually met in person, all our work from Lion Forge. One of the great things correspondence has been through email and skype. about collaborative comics is to see how the project That’s one of the great things about the internet, evolves … It’s also the longest comic I’ve drawn to it’s completely opened up opportunities of how and date, so I’m pretty chuffed with managing to draw who you work with in comics. 150+ pages in such a short time! Any challenges involved? What’s the story about and how did you visualise it? In creating Haphaven itself there was a lot of world The story focused on a young girl named Alex building… what does this world look like, what are Mills who, after stepping on a crack and breaking the people/cultures like, the landscape, what do her mother’s back, must journey to Haphaven, the they eat, etc. It’s easy to get wrapped up in that world where all of Earth’s superstitions draw their aspect. If there were no deadlines I’d probably still power. On the search for the lucky rabbit’s foot to be drawing sketches of the markets of save her mom, Alex learns that breaking with Luchorburough! So it’s important to remain superstition might be the key to saving her mom, focused on the most important things: the story even if it means she could get jinxed along the way. and characters. Everything else has to serve those. In terms of visualising the story I saw this as chance to do something in the vein of the Studio Where can we buy a copy? Ghibli movies that have always been a huge At all good comic stores from 6th March and book inspiration to me and my work. They excel in stores from 19 March! I’ll also be doing a signing at creating these magical, fantastical worlds that are Kings Comics in Sydney on March 9, noon-4pm, full of wonder, but also feel very natural, normal and a Q+A at Impact Comics in Canberra on and relatable at the same time. The look of Alex March 31, 4-6pm. And I’ll have copies with me at herself I arrived at quite easily, she almost seemed one of my favourite events of the year, Comic Gong to pop into my mind fully formed. She was such a on 11 May. Hope to see you there! 2515

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Organisers Dennis and Karen Lundin have put together a feast for local film fans. 2515 reports.

Indie film fans, take a seat! The online Coal Coast Film Festival will make its big screen debut at Anita’s Theatre in Thirroul on Saturday, March 9. Local filmmakers Dennis and Karen Lundin have organised an afternoon screening of 12 short films and an evening feature. “We hope the local community will support independent filmmakers and this inaugural event,” Karen told 2515. With her husband, Dennis, a former movie stuntman, Karen runs LundinStudio at Helensburgh Business Park. The couple launched the first round of the film festival a year ago. “We ran an online submissions round every two months from March 2018 and finalists in the Australia and International categories were selected, including a Wildcard short film in each category,” Karen said. “These 12 finalist short films will be screened at 3pm on Saturday, 9th March, then the award winners for Best Australian Short Film and Best International Short Film will be announced. After a short intermission, we will screen a special feature film at 7pm by a local filmmaker [Woonona writer-director Corey Pearson]. “Message Man is an action-crime-thriller with a MA15+ rating, not for the faint-hearted. The synopsis from IMDb is: ‘A retired assassin’s past catches up with him and his brutality surfaces as he goes on a final killing spree to make things right.” Karen kindly took time to tell 2515 more about the film fest, a first for our coast!

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How did the Coal Coast Film Festival come about? We wanted to promote independent filmmakers in the local area, around Australia and overseas, and to hold a community event that showcases the talent and hard work of filmmakers who make their own short films, so we started the Coal Coast Film Festival.

How long is a short film? Forty minutes and under. Where did your entries come from and what genres were covered? We received a large number of submissions to the festival throughout the year and most of our Australian submissions came from NSW, Victoria and Queensland. Our six International Finalists are from the US and France, however, we also received submissions from the UK, Germany, Canada, Portugal, Hong Kong, Pakistan and Kuwait. Genres include drama, period drama, horror, sci-fi, thriller, comedy, romance and journalistic documentary. The short films’ ratings range from G to M. Describe some of the local finalists. Three of our finalists are from NSW, with a one-minute short Cut Off by Ryan Cauchi, a student short film Judgement by Julian Neuhaus and a short film The Road to Vagator by Nick Bolton and Jess Milne, shot on their honeymoon.

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Is there anything typical or special about Australian shorts? Australian short filmmakers, at least those who have submitted their films to the Coal Coast Film Festival, seem to favour comedy, however, we have received a range of other genres from Australian filmmakers.

projects and use one studio as the production office and the other for filming. We are particularly interested in helping up and coming filmmakers produce their films and also offer the use of our studio as a prize to award winners of the festival.

Who will judge the films on March 9? We have drawn on a number of film people, including ourselves, for judging.

Tell us about the festival’s feature film and why you chose it. We met Woonona writer/ director Corey Pearson at his Dennis is a former movie stuntman and together you run premiere of Message Man at the Gala Cinema Warrawong and LundinStudio in Helensburgh. Please tell us more about your he was kind enough to offer his careers in the industry. film for screening at the Coal We started LundinStudio to provide a creative Coast Film Festival. space for filmmakers, video production and Corey wrote and directed photography. Dennis has had a long career in the two feature films, Message Man film industry and I have come to it late in the game. and Harmony, that were both released to theatres My background is engineering, project in 2018. Message Man has been released theatrically management and teaching, among other things, and lately we have been involved in making several in four countries around the world and has been sold to over 20 countries. Corey is also writer/ short films in a range of genres. director on a high-profile project, Silent Day, with Hollywood talent. Naturally, we are thrilled to have What’s in your studio in Helensburgh and who uses it? LundinStudio has two warehouse-style film, video Message Man as the special feature during the festival. and photo studios in the Helensburgh Business n Buy tickets via www.coalcoastfilmfestival.com, Park and Hollywood-quality film-lighting, a large green screen (6 x 6m) and other equipment. Video Facebook @LundinStudio or on the Anita’s Theatre production companies, individuals, businesses and website. Please pre-purchase tickets as only a limited number can be sold at the door. 2515 students can use the space for their creative

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By Coledale’s Susie Crick, chair of Surfrider Foundation Australia. March is going to be a huge month for the Surfrider Foundation. On Saturday, 2nd March we are celebrating Clean Up Australia Day with the newest members of the University of Wollongong Surfrider Club who will be organising their first clean up event. We will be collaborating with Wollongong City Council, Plastic Free Wollongong, the Wollongong Free Divers, Rotary and Fair Food Foragers to get our harbour and surrounding beaches sparkling clean. We invite the community to support our students and take part from 9am at Wollongong Harbour and will provide you with bags. For those of you who prefer to get wet, then bring your surfboards, SUPs, kayaks, surf skis and canoes and head out on our harbour where the Wollongong Free Divers will bring the rubbish up from the seabed. See you there! CLEAN UP SYDNEY HARBOUR Aside from overseeing the South Coast operations of Surfrider, my other role is the Chair of the National Foundation so I would like to invite the residents of 2515 to take part in something special. On Sunday, 3 March, Surfrider has partnered with Clean Up Australia to do a spectacular event on Sydney Harbour in front of the Sydney Opera House off the ‘Man O War’ jetty steps. At 9am, we are jumping into water to paddle out into Sydney Harbour with the Sydney Free Divers. Surfing world champions, Tom Carroll, Rob Bain and the legendary Simon Anderson will be leading the paddle out. Our Surfrider celebrity Ambassadors will be in the water acting as safety officials: these include Lucas Handley, Laura Wells, Samson Coulter and Juliana King. Please bring your boards and watercraft and join us for this paddle out on Sydney Harbour.

Zoe Grospiron, Surfrider Europe Ambassador and Roxy longboard team rider and (inset) the Surfrider Southern Cross Rainbow painted by Ozzie Wrong.

on the coast or inland, we depend on the oceans for the air that we breathe. The plastics industry has a lot to answer for, but it’s not a blame game. Plastic is the most versatile material and we love it for its convenience … until it becomes seriously ‘inconvenient’. Our love affair with plastic is starting to wane and now we can see the good, the bad and finally, the really ugly. Many people are thinking ‘what difference will I make’? Here’s the answer: we need ‘awareness’ to grow. We need everyone to stop plastic at the source. That could mean choosing items not packaged in plastic and seeking alternatives. As a community of ocean lovers we need to be the start of a positive human environmental virus CHANGE YOUR WAYS that spreads from one person to the next, until we In April, the Surfrider Foundation is taking part reach a pandemic of change. in the Surfing Medicine International Conference Individuals think that they can’t make a to encourage people to make choices that positively difference so they don’t embrace the need to adapt; impact the marine environment. Our oceans but when a roomful, a postcode, a thousand, are suffering from human impact and our a million and then a billion of us get together to ‘convenient’ lifestyles. drive behavioural virality, Clean Water + Healthy Oceans = LIFE. We have then momentum shifts. to modify our behaviours to align with nature, Be that one in a billion. rather than combat it. No matter whether we live 2515

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Here’s a guide to the six major apple varieties at Darkes, including best picking time. Our ‘Orchard Explorer’ tractor is in full swing, taking visitors into the orchard for tours and picking sessions! Jo Fahey reports. GALA: Gala apples are the first we pick in January to mid-February. They are non-uniform in colour, vertically striped or mottled, with slight white to yellowing in the background as they mature. They are sweet, fine textured and aromatic. Can be added to salads and sensational in strudel! The Gala tree was the result of a seedling crossed from Golden Delicious and Kidd’s Orange Red in New Zealand in the 1930s by orchardist J.H. Kidd. It was patented in 1974 and became popular across the world in the 1980s.

of strawberry, pear, passionfruit and pineapple. We are really excited by this apple and should be picking them very early March. They are now trademarked under the name ‘Julz’ in over 46 countries. We think Julie apples could end up being the next big thing in apples. RED DELICIOUS: Was discovered in the USA at the end of the 19th century, is a bright-red sweet apple. Stores well but can have a relatively tough and tannic skin. We find it pretty good in cider making. We pick these beginning of March.

FUJI: A sweet treat and definitely a dessert apple. Thin skinned, with a good, strong, firm crunch. Some say they have a spicy sweet flavor. Beautiful highlights set off the deep red colour giving the Fuji its own unique look. They can grow really large. Picked here in late February and March.

GRANNY SMITH: The only well-known chance seedling founded in the Sydney region, originating from Ryde in 1868. We pick these in late March/ early April. Our climate produces a sweeter taste. Great in all salads, sauces and pies.

JULIE: Our newest apple is from a chance seedling found by our mate Bill Shields on his orchard more than 20 years ago. Bill named this apple after his wife, Julie! A chance seedling is a genetically unique plant that comes from unintentional breeding. Some say Julie apples have subtle flavours

PINK LADY: Picked throughout April. Ours are sweet and have a lovely acidic tang in the background. The flavour we achieve here is developed from our specific climatic factors and soil structure. In the grape industry you would say it’s our ‘terroir’ that makes all the difference! 2515

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With Farm Manager Callum Champagne We have been growing lettuce since we took over the farm. Knowing that lettuce was a quick turnaround crop (taking between 5 to 10 weeks to reach maturity, depending on the season), and it can be grown all year round. We specialised in selling lettuce and pre-mixed salads at the start to get things going quickly. When we began our weekly veg box, lettuce played a huge role in it, and it soon became a much-appreciated staple. Over the last few years, I think we have received more positive feedback about the quality of our lettuce than perhaps any other veg. Our most commonly grown variety is Oak Lettuce, both red and green. Oak lettuce is soft-leaved, mild-tasting lettuce that can be grown all year around. The tender leaves form in the heart of the plant and its oak-like leaves plume out to create a mushroom shaped head. Our other key variety of lettuce is Cos. With firm, upright leaves, cos lettuce is a crunchier variety commonly used in creamy salads as it can hold its shape and texture with moisture. We avoid growing cos in the cool season as it’s susceptible to root rot but in summer, it’s a farm staple! When harvesting, we cut our lettuce heads off at the base rather than ‘bare rooted’ as you will often see in supermarkets. While pulling the whole root bulb out can sometimes lead to the head surviving longer before wilting, it also deprives the soil of the organic matter and nutrients that have built up in the roots. By cutting the head off at the base, and retaining the stubble and root, we give this organic matter back to the soil, allowing the soil ecosystem to rehabilitate in preparation for the next crop.

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With Fair Food Coordinator Kristin Watson Growing up we always had a salad on the table, I’ve grown to love the texture of crunchy leaves freshening up anything from BBQ, to pasta or even a curry. There are a couple of crucial things to consider when dealing with lettuce. 1. Look after it correctly: I run a cold bath for my lettuce in the kitchen sink, giving it a gentle rinse. Then spin in it in a salad spinner and store loosely packed in an airtight container lined with a kitchen towel. 2. A good salad dressing: My staple salad dressings are olive oil based, using good local oil. I love apple cider vinegar too, and it’s so good for you. I use 1-part vinegar to 2 parts oil, salt, pepper and any herb I have laying around, oregano, thyme or parsley. Another favourite which works nicely with a simple tomato salad, is red wine vinegar, olive oil, and a tsp of Sumac. Don’t be afraid to experiment with your salad by adding nuts, seeds, or even fruits like apples, pears, peaches or grapes. . n Green Connect is a social enterprise that employs young people and former refugees to grow fair food and reduce waste. Our 10-acre chemicalfree permaculture farm spreads out behind Warrawong high schools and is home to not just a large range of vegetables and fruit but also pigs, sheep, bees and chickens. Our weekly veg boxes are available for pick up at Flame Tree Co-op in Thirroul. To order, visit our website, www.green-connect-vegbox.com.au 2515

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trees, Council’s Have Your Say website has an interactive map where you can drop pins to mark areas that need shade or are already well shaded. The survey is part of a new Urban Greening Strategy, which will guide how council plans to protect existing trees and grow the tree canopy cover across the city over the next 20 years. “Planting trees in key locations is a positive solution to cooling down our streets and neighbourhoods. Shade trees can reduce daytime temperatures by 5 to 20 degrees Celsius and improve mental health, increased property value and reduce energy costs,” said Wollongong Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery. Go to www.haveyoursaywollongong.com.au/ summer-shade. Comments close on April 15. 2515

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EYE IN THE SKY BY CHRIS DUCZYNSKI

SURFER & APPROACHING DUSTSTORM: It had been a sweltering hot day with strong westerlies blowing in from the desert. About an hour before sunset the sky started turning burnt orange. A cloud of red dust was approaching and forming amazing colours in the sky and on the water. From the air at Coledale beach you could see the palette unfold below as surfers enjoyed the last light. Prints available at www. malibumedia.com.au 2515

especially with breeding season running from September through to January, when food is readily available. But when times are tough and resources are limited or too many eggs are laid and all of them hatch, it makes raising all chicks into big, fat, healthy birds, a big ask. Kookaburra chicks hatch with a specially hooked beak that disappears once they are ready to fledge. Picture this: 3 or 4 eggs are laid in a tree hollow (or alternatively in a hollowed-out termite nest), hatching separately, giving the first couple of babies an advantage over the last to hatch, often also the smallest chick. Blind and featherless, they attack this runt with their hooked beak until the sibling is fatally injured. Sometimes, the process is slower and the bigger, older chicks steal the food as it is brought in, until the remaining chick/s starve to death. Sure is a tough introduction to the world! Look out for ‘kookabubbas’! 2515’s newest contributor, Things do look up. Both parents heap on the Thirroul blogger Amanda De George, reports. care, feeding and protecting surviving young. Raising ‘kookabubbas’ isn’t just a two-bird job How could you not love the laughing kookaburra; so loud, with that raucous, contagious laugh? Those and older siblings from previous clutches stay with hunters of mice and thieves of sausages, those stars the family unit for up to three years to help care for of childhood songs are always around. Especially in the new chicks and protecting the territory. From killing your siblings to ensure your the Northern Illawarra, with an escarpment full of survival through to helping raise your younger trees that are full of hollows, the favoured nesting siblings to ensure their survival? Such extremes of site for these birds – they are part of the furniture. But did you know that many of those kookaburras behaviour! But all that cooperative help along the way leads to longer lives lived, more eggs laid and may have gotten there by committing siblicide – that is, killing off one of their siblings?! And worse lots of healthy chicks to pass on their genes. Pretty successful process after all. So I guess the question still, the parents totally condone it! should be asked: who’s laughing now? It’s difficult to imagine these cheery-sounding n Visit ‘Backyard Zoology’ on Facebook. 2515 birds could have such a brutal start to life,

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VET AT WORK With Dr Matt O’Donnell. It has been great enjoying the warm days. I have seen lots of dogs and their companions on the beach having a great time. The usual summer fun also brings a few incidents through our doors and I thought I would share one with you. You may remember Rafael from a previous story where he had swallowed a fish hook when he was five months old! Well, Rafael has survived to be 12 months old but not without incident. Recently he became very quiet and was off his food for a couple of days. This was unlike him, so his owners brought him in for a check. He was lethargic and had a fever. Initially we thought he may have had an infection in his joints or been a bit too greedy in ingesting a whole coconut he was offered, but no evidence of this could be found. In passing, it was mentioned he was producing the occasional soft cough and gag. With no explanation for his symptoms after an examination and blood tests, we took some chest x-rays. This proved to be the definitive step as we found subtle changes suggesting aspiration pneumonia. Rafael is very enthusiastic and doesn’t do anything by halves. We found out later he loves to chase the ball through the surf, crash through the waves and grab the ball with his head under water. Dogs cannot close their mouth to seal it like we do and as you can imagine, when out of breath and diving into rough water to grab a ball with your mouth, it’s not hard to see how a dog can ingest and sometimes even inhale the water. Fortunately for Rafael, he is young and otherwise healthy and did not do too much damage. He is now making a good recovery with rest and antibiotics. This is a rare misadventure but still worth considering if your dog is an enthusiastic swimmer at the beach. Mostly we find these dogs can get an upset stomach from swallowing too much water but occasionally they may be unlucky enough to get water into their lungs. n Northern Illawarra Veterinary Hospital is at 332 Princes Highway, Bulli. Phone 4238 8575. 2515

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Warren De Clouett joined Scarborough Fire Station (#442) in 1982 and has been active ever since.

FIGHT FIRES & RESCUE OTHERS Janice Creenaune meets Warren De Clouett, a retired coal miner and butcher whose loyalty as a local retained fireman has been steadfast for 37 years.

detection skills developed. One physical test involves dragging 50m hoses, containers and ladders. “Every fortnight we put in two hours of training, but it was always stressed by Ex-Captain Warren De Clouett radiates a passion and Vince that family is always first for our attention, enthusiasm for his local area, the Northern Suburbs then work and lastly the Fire Brigade. It is of the Illawarra. “I was born on the table-top in necessary we all keep perspective.” Scarborough, delivered by Grandma Emmett. I Over the years, the many accidents in the area have worked in all the local mines and many of the – where a moral and physical strength is needed to butcher shops in my younger days before assist – have had the biggest the impact, Warren retirement. I have certainly travelled elsewhere, but says. Motorbike accidents (often fatal due to this is my area,” Warren says, with affection. excessive speed), car crashes, cliff rescues, kite Warren joined Scarborough Fire Station (#442) accident rescues, even dogs. It can be rewarding, as part of Fire and Rescue NSW in 1982. He has it can be harrowing. Threatening fires have also been active ever since. “We are called whenever been memorable. “The two houses we lost in necessary, but now I am retired I am available 24/7, Coalcliff a few years ago were serious, a howling for call-outs. All the fire divisions work together for southerly, rain at times, our water supply was weak a common cause, to protect the community.” and the other houses were definitely at risk. It was Warren admits it was not always so cordial in dangerous and more forces were called in.” past decades, with different rules and procedures Scarborough Fire Station enters into competition for different units, for example, town firemen v demonstrations around the state. “We have won rural and, later, community fire units. “Today is many medals over the years,” Warren says. much different, we are a sleek operating unit, “I don’t do this for the money. It is community supporting each other, helping out where needed based and I feel like I am giving something back. and co-operatively working together for the best I am still fit enough, but it really is a younger man’s possible outcome for those in need.” ‘game’. I want to encourage others to come forward, Warren has also seen changes in fire and rescue particularly younger community members, and gear. “Even our hose fittings did not fit each part of both sexes. Computers are a major part of our the service. Pumps were inefficient and selforganisation, for example, and younger adults are pumping backpacks stored a minimum amount of savvy with these skills. They are also fit, healthy water. Thankfully, too, that has all changed.” and strong. But they must have time to devote … One thing that has not changed is the They must be available to train and to serve.” camaraderie. “There are many [people] I have Warren is also a Life Member of Scarborough/ worked with for decades and the supportive spirit Wombarra Life Saving, the Northern Suburbs never wanes. We are trained as a unit, and we Senior Rugby League, Northern Suburbs Junior remain a unit. And we depend on each other, Rugby League and Helensburg Touch Football. for we each have a job to do.” “I know I owe my wife, Monica, a great deal. I Training is an intense nine-day exercise in couldn’t have done any of it without her support.” Sydney, then ongoing locally. There are pile burns, n Writer Janice Creenaune is also a volunteer for Hazmat training, training in Breathing Apparatus PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) Foundation hoses, ‘Pump School’, Basic Life Support and gas Australia. For more, call Janice on 4267 4880. 2515

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AUTHOR TALK • Tuesday, 26 March at 5.30pm. Come along and meet successful local author Dell Brand as she discusses her latest historical novel, Journey into Darkness, the third in a trilogy. Readers are transported through history following the adventures of a tenacious woman named Kit Markham. 2515

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With Duncan Leadbitter. Part 2 of our underwater discovery series explores the Gravel Loader site and comes with a must-watch video on YouTube. Bass Point, near Shellharbour, has a number of great snorkelling and scuba diving sites accessible from the shore. The ‘Gravel Loader’ wharf takes blue metal (crushed igneous rock) from the mine on the western end of bass point and transfers it to vessels to transfer to Sydney, where it is used in concrete. It is an interesting place to snorkel and dive and I did my first scuba dive there after getting my certification in 1981. Entry and exit is easy and the best place is from the old boat launching ramp on the eastern side – see the marked-up video “2508GravelLoader YouTube”. It is also possible to jump in the water on the shoreward end of the loader. From the boat ramp, it’s fairly shallow (2 to 3m) for the swim out to the central part of the loader. Marine life is attracted to the pylons and the shelter they provide and it’s possible to see large schools of old wives hanging motionless, waiting for small fish to feed on. Depending on the time of year, there may be large schools of yellowtail and one-spot pullers, both of which are plankton feeders. In late summer, yellowtail kingfish often hang around the seaward end, waiting to prey on the yellowtail. The depth of the water at the seaward end is about 12 to 13m, so unless it’s very clear it may not be possible to see the bottom. Living on the pylons is a variety of marine life, such as jewel anemones, hydroids and sea squirts, which look like bagpipes.

The snorkel out and back crosses an area of relatively barren habitat dominated by sea urchins. This habitat is common on the NSW reefs between about 2 and 13m or so. The urchins dominate the ecology such that very few other organisms can grow, including kelps, which provide good habitat for fish. Basically anything that settles on the rock to grow is eaten by the urchins. There are some theories that the urchin barrens are caused by overfishing of the urchin’s predators, which include Port Jackson sharks, blue groper and spiny lobsters. However, none of these species are overfished, although spiny lobsters were for decades, and blue groper were heavily fished many years ago. Either urchin barrens are a long-term legacy of that overfishing and may slowly change back or they are quite natural. There is a great book on the ecology of southern Australia’s rocky reefs called Under Southern Seas. It was published 20 years ago, but there may still be copies around and it contains a wealth of information about the plants and animals found along our coast. Under Southern Seas was edited by 2515 resident Professor Neil Andrew. n Visit www.youtube.com and search for “2508GravelLoaderYouTube”. 2515 Coast News will also share this film clip on our Facebook page in March. Check it out! 2515

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DR RIP’S SCIENCE OF THE SURF With Prof Rob Brander. This month: should lifeguard patrol times be extended more often? I was planning on getting back to writing articles this year explaining the science about how our beaches and waves work, but the terrible drowning toll this summer keeps bringing me back to beach safety. The number of drownings show no signs of decreasing. There are also many close calls as evident by the number of bystander rescues by surfers, off-duty lifesavers and lifeguards and the general public that seem to be occurring more frequently. These are just my observations, but it seems to me that the number of people using beaches and ocean pools is increasing incredibly rapidly. Part of this is lifestyle driven, which is great – people should be using our beautiful beaches. But much of it is social media driven by spreading images of coastal locations that are often unpatrolled and hazardous to people who normally wouldn’t visit these locations and/or don’t have sufficient awareness and knowledge of the local conditions and hazards. This changing coastal usage brings significant challenges for beach-safety practitioners, local councils and emergency services alike. I strongly believe we’re reaching a tipping point for how we approach drowning prevention. Last year I wrote about a drowning at the northern end of Stanwell Park and suggested that due to the large crowds (not swimming between the flags!) accessing that area from the park that an extra set of flags be located there – or a temporary

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lifeguard tower be installed. Unfortunately my article upset the lifesavers, which was not my intention at all. On that day, the lifesavers had placed the flags on the safest part of the beach, as they always do, and the patrol was extremely vigilant (I was there). My point was that Stanwell Park is facing new challenges and the lifeguards and lifesavers need extra help and resources on busy days. This probably applies to other beaches as well, but extra help comes with a financial cost and a major paradigm shift in how we patrol our beaches. On a scorching day in February, council lifeguards at Stanwell Park extended their patrolling hours to 7pm due to the crowds still on the beach. This makes a lot of sense. For many people, evenings are the only chance they have to swim. So perhaps this needs to happen more often, at least on weekends, holidays and hot days during the patrol season and daylight savings. Of course, lifeguards and lifesavers already do long hours and the latter are volunteers giving up their time. But perhaps the patrols can be extended with the use of more shifts. No doubt this is not as easy to do as it sounds and it’s a topic that generates strong opinions. There are no easy answers, but it seems to me we want lifeguards/lifesavers on the beach when and where people need them the most. Have a question for Dr Rip about the Science of the Surf? Email rbrander@unsw.edu.au. 2515

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