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"It was absolutely massive." Despite never having seen an octopus of that size, Brailey said she didn't fully comprehend how rare the sighting was until her social media was flooded with comments from friends overseas. "I didn't really think anything of it until I started getting all these messages about it, especially from my friends in New Zealand and the US," she said. "This is just another day on the Australian beach." Several species of octopus are found throughout NSW waters, from the shallow intertidal rock ledges to the deep offshore areas. Wategos Beach is a sanctuary zone in ...

Share The keys to Balmain’s most expensive house have finally been handed over to the buyer who paid $11 million, revealed on title records to be the daughter of gold mining magnate Xu Hanjing. Cathy Xiao Xu, 33, is only the fourth owner of the historic waterfront house since it was built in the 1880s by Charles Yeend, the son of prominent innkeeper James Yeend, and follows 60 years of Cloughessy family ownership after they bought it for £3350 in 1960 from the liquidators for Mort’s Dock and Engineering Company. Cathy’s identity has been a closely guarded secret by Cobden & Hayson’s ...

Village Life, his latest creation - at 90 years of age. Having once worked alongside Hollywood screen icons Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire, the storytelling veteran has donned his director's cap for a new passion project - a documentary about life at Feros Village Byron Bay, the residential aged care centre he calls home. Village Life provides an insider's perspective of the bold, beautiful and vibrant community of Feros Village Byron Bay, with many of Alan's fellow residents and carers having starring roles in the film. Shot on location in early 2020, the documentary's premiere was put on h...

Celebrities and cashed-up city folk flocking to Byron Bay have forced up house prices 36 per cent in just a year as locals struggle to find a home. The once-sleepy hippie haven on the New South Wales far north coast used to be lined with plenty of affordable shacks near the beach. But in recent years, those fibro houses have been bulldozed and replaced with water view mansions, some taking up three blocks. Movie stars like Chris Hemsworth and Zac Efron also moved into the town that was once renowned for its barefoot artists, surfers and rainbow bus tours to Nimbin.

Premium Content Subscriber only Surf's up in and out of the water as the 2021 Byron Bay Surf Festival is set to offer a stoked three days for surfers of all levels from February 26 to 28. Surfers will be swarming from across the state and over the border to compete in the wave riding events. The festival is also a well-loved event for friends to catch up and relax while watching a film, listening to music or attending a Q&A session. Tickets are on sale for some amazing events in this year's line-up but don't wait or you could miss out.