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The November 2021 issue of The Triangle is online and ready to read now, or you can pick up a paper copy from your local distribu on point. Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018

Wiseman's Ferry We packed the snags, rolls and flask Ready for our day, without the mask! Such a scenic drive to the ferry… Onto it, we drove, to cross the Hawkesbury. It reminded me of the Clyde When the punt took us to the other side To con nue the picturesque South Coast ride. We found our favourite spot by the river So quiet, with what Nature delivers To cook our lunch and rest awhile And cherish fresh air with our smiles. Now to find the other ferries Along the river Hawkesbury! By Mary Murray beagle weekly : Vol 232 November 5th 2021 28

Reading - le er to the editor Open Le er to Eurobodalla Business Chambers - Protect Mountain Bike State Forests

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 Dear Batemans Bay, Mogo, Moruya, Narooma Business Chambers and Ministers and Shadow Ministers for Tourism and Environment Coastwatchers is wri ng to appeal to the business community to call for the protec on of the local spo ed gum public forests that contain both the exis ng and planned Mogo and Narooma mountain bike hubs. As part of Mogo’s economic recovery, $8 million has been pledged for a na onally significant Mogo Adventure Trails Hub. Of this taxpayer money, $750,000 is Eurobodalla Shire Council ratepayer funding. Another $8 million has been pledged for mountain bike trails in Bodalla State Forest. This investment in eco-tourism is essen al as the Eurobodalla Shire is an important visitor des na on on the south coast of NSW, welcoming 1.2 million visitors per year. Domes c visitor nights in 2019/20 numbered 2,001,422. More recently Mogo was a hot finalist in the 2021 NSW tourism awards. Local jobs directly supported by tourism, number 1,425 with another 850 tourism jobs indirectly supported. Mogo and Bodalla State Forests could be flagship des na ons for forest based recrea onal ac vi es. However, the state forests that exis ng and planned mountain bike trails are located in, are being logged by the state based NSW Forestry Corpora on. On Friday 5 November 2021 Forestry changed the status of the Mogo State Forest Compartment 146 to ac ve. This compartment is bordered by Dog Trap Road and Mitchell's Road and is just up the hill from Mogo tourist village. The Kona mountain bike Trail, linking the Vietnam Trail in Dunns Creek with the Mitchell Road Trail, is in this forest. The new trail is planned to go through the spo ed gum forest adjacent to Dog Trap Road. The harvest plan map shows these trails will be logged with the trails closed for months, heavy machinery churning up the tracks and treetops le all over the hillsides as occurred in Mogo Compartment 180 earlier this year along Maulbrooks Road and Dunns Creek in 2019. Local business chambers with a vested interest in a thriving economy, can work with the Ministers for Tourism and the Environment to ensure these public forests containing these mountain bike trails are not logged. These forests are public land owned by the people of NSW. NSW Forestry Corpora on staff simply arrange access to the private sector to cut down trees, with returns so low, that the planta on sector pays for na ve forestry opera onal costs. Mogo State Forest compartment 146 is 174 hectares in total and with a return to the NSW Forestry Corpora on of only $128 per hectare (20c per tree) this totals only $22,784. Will this be even enough to compensate for this week’s grading of the dirt Dog Trap Road which will need to be redone a er it’s all over? We must not allow any more logging of these natural assets that we are using to a ract mountain bike riders from around the country. Eurobodalla has over 106,000 hectares of state forest comprising one third of the shire. If logging of NSW public state forests ceases as has been announced in WA and Victoria, these public forests could be used for regional recrea on to take the pressure off fire damaged na onal parks.

Furthermore, the carbon sink created from keeping the trees standing in the 106, 462 hectares of state forest in the Eurobodalla and 140,480 hectares of state forest Bega Valley Shire, would negate all of both shire’s carbon emissions from transport, electricity, waste and agriculture. Over 440,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide are emi ed from these sectors in the Eurobodalla (494,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the Bega Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Valley Shire) each year. See Zero SE Forest Fact sheet. When na ve forests are logged, most of the carbon Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 stored in these trees is released as the treetops are le on the forest floor then burnt and the logging is primarily for export woodchips and firewood. Instead of logging public na ve forests, the state based NSW Forestry Corpora on could work with the private sector to develop a Forestry Industry Plan to transi on fully to planta ons on marginal agricultural land. Planta ons are efficient, uncontroversial, devoid of threatened species and profitable with opera ons paying local council rates. Logging Mogo State Forest Compartment 146, will only provide work for two or three people (the harves ng machine operator, skidder operator and the truck driver) for a few months. These private operators already work in pine planta ons. Let's get organised so they work in planta ons all of the me. In 2020, an East Gippsland contractor logged Compartment 59 in South Brooman, north of Batemans Bay. Other logging in Eurobodalla usually has Eden based contractors with overseas origins. These examples challenge the myth that logging provides local jobs. Eurobodalla locals want to keep our forests intact for local eco-tourism that generates jobs in hospitality, track construc on and maintenance, bicycle sales and repairs, not to men on protec on and observa on of threatened species through ac vi es like commercial spotligh ng and guided bushwalks. This will also address road safety as locals are currently at serious risk from dodging loaded logging trucks on blind corners on dirt roads. Tourists visi ng our coastal villages including Mogo have to nego ate loaded logging trucks when they cross the street. Our volunteer work has already saved almost eight hectares of Dunns Creek State Forest in 2019, four hectares near unofficial Pear Tree Lane and a ten metre buffer along several kilometres of the bicentenary funded walking track from Anne Street in Mogo. A er Mogo State Forest Compartment 146 is logged, the only state forest le on the beachside of Mogo village will be what volunteers have saved. Surely the clout of the combined business community can save the forests that mountain bike trails riders depend upon. Let’s get these forests listed as a forest preserved area under state forest protec on for regional use to underpin this $16 million eco-tourism investment. Regards Joslyn van der Moolen, Nick Hopkins, Lois Padgham Coastwatchers Associa on Incorporated - Forest Working Group

Reading—A beer with Baz Bazza strode to the bar table, nodded at Mick and took a decent drink of the full schooner. ‘Thanks, Mick. I needed that. I’ve had a bit of a horror week. In fact, for once, I can empathise with your mate, Sco Mo. I have pre y munch stuffed up everything I have touched.” Mick shook his head. “The week started with good inten ons all round, Mick. I thought I would get the house ready for summer and replace a broken fly screen. Five minutes into the job, and I’ve put a hammer through the window, cut my finger and fallen off the step ladder.” Mick chuckled and took a sip. “Well, Mick, I am focused on finishing the job. I put a dressing on the finger and strap the ankle and head off to the hardware store. I manage to bump another car in the parking lot and we go through the exchange of licences.” “I think you should have called it quits and headed home, Bazza.” “You are dead right, Mick. I think I was at that point where Sco Mo thought it would be a good idea to bail up President Macron in Rome, to say ‘G’day’ and offer a ‘She’ll be right’, before heading to Glasgow. Just like our leader, I ba le on and limp with my crook ankle to the entrance to the hardware store to finish my mission. Well of course, I can’t unlock my phone because I’ve bandaged my finger and so I can’t scan in.” “Bazzaaaaaa, you need to set the phone up so you can use other fingerprints. Anyhow, your pin code should of done the trick.” “Ah Mick, my daughter set the phone up and I thought this fingerprint business was a pre y ni y trick as I keep forge ng my pin code so I’m stranded with a bandaged finger and a phone that doesn’t like me anymore. I try half a dozen different pins and the bloody thing locks down completely and I drop it on the pavement in frustra on.” “I’d call that a bad day, Bazza.” “Well, Mick, just like Sco Mo deciding it would be a good idea to release private text messages with the President of France, I decide to ba le on and head to the phone shop. Well of course, the bloke on the front door won’t let me in because I can’t scan in. I tell you, Mick, lose your phone, lose your life these days. Eventually, the tech savvy young bloke comes to the door, and in no short me, tells me my phone is stuffed.” Bazza paused for a drink. “So Mick, to try and fix a faulty fly screen has cost me a broken window, a cut finger, a sprained ankle, damage to two vehicles, a new phone and a whole morning in me.” “Well there you go, Bazza, and to think some people reckon the end of lockdown is a good thing.” Bazza sighed. “Ah yeah, Mick, and to think I was lecturing you on how Sco Mo NOT going to Glasgow would damage Australia’s credibility.”

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EMASCULATION. – Owing to unforeseen circumstances Mr. M. E. Ryan was unable to operate in Moruya Vol 16 September 15th 2017 yesterday but expects to do so on Monday Next. Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 LAUNCHING OF BOAT. – Narooma was en fete on Thursday when the Sawmiller’s Shipping Co’s new wooden vessel was launched in a “river of champagne,” and christened “Kianga.” The day was an ideal one, the launching a phenomenal success and the a endance the largest ever seen in the pre y li le seaside village. CRICKET TEAM. – The following cricketers will represent Moruya against Mogo at Mogo to-day (Saturday). The Secretary wishes the players to be at F. Knight’s shop at 12.30 p.m. C. Carter, C. Selden, P. J. Feneley, F. Knight, R. Spinks, H. Richards, B. Coppin, L. W. Jones, W. Brierly, H. Li le and D. Rose. Emergencies – W. Doyle, and H. Duren. A. & P. SOCIETY. – The commi ee mee ng of the Moruya A. and P. Society on Wednesday was a ended by Messrs. D. Hutchinson (chair), J. R. Milne, A. Lou t, A. F. Emmo , S. Lou t, R. J. Anderson, A. H. Anne s, W. S. Nelson, H. W. Luck, J. E. Lavis, E. Colle and R. L. Dawson. The correspondence included principally offers of special prizes from Sydney business firms. Judges in various sec ons were appointed. It was decided to move the Secretary’s office from its present posi on to the side of steps in front of the Show pavilion. PROGRESS ASSOCIATION. – A special mee ng …… was held in the Shire Hall to discuss the ligh ng of the Moruya township. It was moved by Rev. Fulton and seconded by Mr. Heffernan that the Secretary be instructed to write to the Shire Council, sta ng that Mr. Preddy is prepared to supply electric light lights for 1/- a unit, cos ng about 1/- a night for 5 lights or 2/- for 10 lights and that we recommend that this offer be put into prac cal shape between Council and Mr. Preddy. MOGO. - (From our Correspondent). Another gold-mining syndicate is about to operate in the Mogo Creek. Mr. Blakely, a city man, and Mr. Allie Sebbens, locally known is keen on the venture. Allie has almost always been walking and talking on the subject, and his pluck deserves every success. Harry Anne s and Ab. Barling are having a go later – the former ought to do, as about him there seems to hang the “streak of luck,” whilst the typical wait-a-while cau on of the la er would crown any mining school. The precious stone is there, lads; go get it!.... Mr. Lynch, of Sandy Creek, is doing some fine ploughing, and looks with pleasure on his ancestral home. Dan Egan is also hard at work on his pre y li le farm at Runnymede, and deals out some of the best corn. Extracted from the Moruya Examiner by the Moruya and District Historical Society Inc. https:// www.mdhs.org.au

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Eurobodalla Photographic Club, Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 Back in Ac on Twenty three of our masked, vaccinated and sani sed, members gathered together for the October mee ng in Tomakin hall. Unfortunately health restric ons were not li ed in me to save our planned October workshop with Len Metcalf. We are hoping to reschedule the workshop early in 2022 depending on Lens availability. Our revamped programme for October included a talk by Heath Barkley on how to manage colour temperature and white balance, both in camera and in post processing. Dave Kemp spoke on the various ways of se ng and controlling, on camera and off camera flash. The compe on topic for October was "Landscape". Our judge for the evening was Wanda Lach a professional photographer based in the Snowy Mountains. Our grateful thanks to Wanda for taking the me to cri que and assess images, check out Wanda's website h ps://www.wandalach.com/. The Eurobodalla photographic Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month 7.00 pm at Tomakin community hall. We can only allow visitors at the present me if less that 27 members wish to a end. Please contact via email for further advise eurobodallaphotographicclub@gmail.com

Bega Valley Dave Kemp

arts Bas reopens with Light Years exhibi on

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 The Bas will make its triumphant Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 return to real-life exhibi ons with two larger than life contemporary offerings. At the Bas gallery proper, Light Years assembles 12 of Australia’s leading contemporary photographers, each having made significant contribu ons to the direc on of global photo-media. Presented in partnership with Australia’s leading photographic gallery Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin, Light Years introduces a heightened viewer experience thanks to innova ons in lightbox display. Eurobodalla Council’s crea ve arts officer Sue Blackburn said each of the images were selected by the ar sts as those that best highlighted the colour, detail and visual ambi on capable with the new technology. “We’re thrilled to be reopening the Bas with this visually stunning exhibi on that examines the important place of photography in Australian contemporary art,” she said. “Advancements in framing and LED illumina on have delivered a contemporary rebirth of the lightbox, which has been a staple display for photo-based media for decades. “We can now see hilltops and oceans pulsate with energy, astounding birds with glowing plumage, and the awesome spectrums of the sky that bathe us in a warm and familiar glow.” Light Years opens at the Bas Saturday 6 November and con nues Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 4pm, un l Friday 5 December. Exhibi ng ar sts are Trent Parke, Narelle Au o, Nici Cumpston, Tamara Dean, Joseph McGlennon, Polixeni Papapetrou, Catherine Nelson, Gerwyn Davies, Derek Henderson, Fabian Muir, Luke Shadbolt and Petrina Hicks. Meanwhile, the latest Bas About Town exhibi on, Time Stretches My Limits by award-winning local ar st Natasha Dusenjko, opened on Saturday at Moruya’s Mechanics Ins tute. Incorpora ng large-scale video projec on and photography, the exhibi on explores me in the context of self-isola on as a psychological and visceral experience. Time Stretches My Limits runs un l 13 November, Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-2pm at the Mechanics Ins tute on Page Street, Moruya. Ms Blackburn said the two exhibi ons missed during Covid lockdown – Kurt Sorenson and Raewyn Lawrence – would be rescheduled. In the mean me you can check out past virtual exhibi ons, as well as dates for exhibi ons and arts workshops, at www.thebas.com.au Above: Tamara Dean’s In Bloom is one of the stunning images to be displayed using the latest lightbox technology in Light Years at the Bas.