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Normal text size Very large text size There is no way to tell the story of a place as beautiful, fractious, mocked, stereotyped and beloved as Byron Bay, unless you admit, firstly, that everyone will have their own version. You fell in love here, married here, gave birth here. You came to get well, or die here. Your life fell apart here. You wrote your book here, or spent years pretending to do so. You danced till dawn in the hills, learnt to surf on those perfectly formed point breaks. You kayaked with dolphins and sea turtles; you heard the migratory humpback whales singing their way up the...

This former dentist started her business by sticking a pin on a map Pam Brook’s family company, Brookfarm, produces gourmet macadamia products sold throughout Australia and exported to more than 12 countries. From the upcoming July issue of AFR Magazine. Pam Brook: “I’d done everything in dentistry that I’d wanted to do ... I was like, what’s the next thing? What’s the next adventure?”  Paul Harris Jun 16, 2021 – 9.10am Save Share In 1988, Pam Brook and her husband, Martin, bought a 39-hectare, lantana-infested former dairy farm in the Byron Bay hint...

How one Bay Area community is taking wildfire watch into its own hands FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Cortis Cooper, a Kensington resident who helped start Wildcat Watch, a neighborhood group where a team of volunteers take turns monitoring ALERTWildfire camera feeds around the clock over Wildcat Canyon in the East Bay during periods with elevated risks such as red flag warnings, walks on the deck of his home overlooking Wildcat Canyon in Kensington, Calif., Tuesday, May 11, 2021.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5Cortis Cooper, a Kensington resident who helped start Wi...

Incredible pictures show the stark difference between Byron Bay now and almost four decades ago when it was still a working class area. Until 1983, the town on the NSW far north coast had an abattoir next to its main beach, with the smell of carcasses off-putting to potential tourists. The ABC has aired historic footage from its old Countrywide TV program showing meat workers finishing a shift shortly before the employer closed its doors for good.   Just two decades before that, in the early 1960s, Byron Bay was a whaling station where offal next door to the abattoir was pumped into the oce...

This massive network of wildfire cameras helps California save lives FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 ALERTWildfire technicians work to install a camera at the Kennedy Gold Mine in Jackson, California on April 21.Max Whittaker, Special to the SF ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 An ALERTWildfire camera is mounted on the top of the head frame of the Kennedy Gold Mine in Jackson, California.Max Whittaker, Special to the SF ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of5 An ALERTWildfire camera is mounted on the top of the head frame of the Kennedy Gold Mine in Jackson, California.Max Whittaker, Special to the SF Chro...