The Annual CWA Far South Coast Group competition in Cookery and Craft was held on Tuesday, 10 March at the Bermagui Country Club. Ten branches from Eden to Batemans Bay competed in many classes of baking, preserving, knitting, sewing, needlework, felting, paper craft and more.
This year the Champion Craft Exhibit and the Champion Cookery item were both won by Cobargo members: Cassie Cole for her amazingly detailed single … Read more »
We had never imagined owning an apiary. But three years ago, my husband discovered a place that looked like paradise on earth – a small farm called Nerimbah for sale on Jaggers Beach just south of Bermagui – which has changed the direction of our lives.
The property was already home to Scottish Highland cattle and Dorper sheep. Grazing together on the coastal pastures with the beach and sea right … Read more »
Recently, Fiona Kotvojs shared a very interesting observation when she and I were down at the Folk Festival selling thousands of sausages and steak sandwiches for the Cobargo Fire Brigade (as you do when you’re a vegetarian who feels guilty for not attending training). She started to count down all the second and third generation people who grew up, left and have now returned to call … Read more »
Mother’s Day at Four Winds in Barragga Bay, Bermagui features Djinama Yilaga who will be performing ancient Yuin stories and songs.
In the forest … by the sea – photographs, prints and paintings
An exhibition of works by Anh-Thu and Roger Stuart at Shop7 ArtSpace, Bermagui Wharf is on display from 20 March to 7 April.
We live south of Bermagui, on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, a place where spotted gum forest meets the sea. This place and its surrounding region have inspired our photography, printmaking and … Read more »
Garnet
by Jennifer Severn
Vine Leaves Press
Reviewed by Wendy Tucker
Garnet is a new novel by local author Jennifer Severn. It follows her successful memoir, Long Road to Dry River which was shortlisted for the Finch Prize for memoir. An earlier manuscript of Garnet was shortlisted for the Viva la Novella prize and, now that it has been published, Garnet is a finalist for the Wishing Shelf … Read more »