http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog Byron Bay, Australia community blog and visitor information with photo gallery Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:33:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi All, Welcome to the March 2010 Byron Property Search Newsletter. Hope you are enjoying the full water tanks and lots of mowing! Street Talk ____________________________________________________________ The mood on the street at the moment is a bit mixed to say the least. On the one hand we have a legion of experts predicting we are ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/984/byron-bay-property-search-march-2010/ NEWS ON THE STREET The property market in the Byron area remains very strong. September and October were actually stronger than November, which is strange, as November is usually a strong selling month. Quality and correct pricing is not lasting long. The latest interest rate rise and the dropping of the ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/980/byron-bay-property-news-december-2009/ [caption id="attachment_963" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Byron Bay Writers Festival"][/caption] The clock is ticking, the key boards are clacking, the delete keys are panting and the send and receive icons are hysterical with anticipation. In less than 4 weeks the opening night curtain will draw back and the show will commence. The Festival ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/962/byron-bay-a-winters-tale-the-byron-bay-writers-festival/ [caption id="attachment_879" align="alignright" width="224" caption="Brunswick Beach Art"][/caption] There's nothing like a spontaneous communal free sculpture exhibition with audience participation to lift the spirits and dispel the laments and cries of, "the terrible, terrible night the beach at Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads was washed away and all its fury and debris ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/878/brunswick-beach-art/ [caption id="attachment_919" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Byron Bay Winter Woolies"][/caption] Phew ... It's winter in Beautiful Byron Bay. It means crisp cold evenings by a wood burning fire. It means soothing red wines and hot rich food as apposed to cold beers and the barbie. It appeals to my European roots.  The food ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/915/byron-bay-beach-bums-in-winter-woolies/ Whale watching is something extraordinary. It's impossible to put down in words. It's a feeling. It's an experience. The song of the whale, the presence of the whale is so primal that something deep in your blood and deep in your ancient understanding wakes up and says, "WOW ... I ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/906/whale-watching-byron-bay/ [caption id="attachment_855" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tyagara Tea Tree Lakes"][/caption] There used to be a little secret in Byron Bay - then it hit the internet and it's not such a secret anymore. But it still has the whisper of a secret. It's an oasis of tea-tree wonder. It's a pristine lake - ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/669/tyagarah-lake-and-smelly-ants-in-your-pants/ [caption id="attachment_360" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Flipper-Flipper ¸.•*¨*✿.•*¨`*~❤"][/caption] There are very few places in Australia with the sub-tropical climate of Byron Bay that offer in equal measure superb beaches and pastoral hinterland and teaming  rain-forests. Byron is unique because Byron Bay is nestled in front of beautiful mountain ranges that tumble into the ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/358/safe-swimming-in-byron-bay/ [caption id="attachment_803" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Brian Cadd at the Byron Bay Writers Festival"][/caption] Every year as the program for the Byron Bay Writers Festival gathers momentum, writers are invited from far corners of Australia and beyond. Said Director Jeni Caffin "It's a joy to scour the literary horizons and extend invitations to ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/802/close-to-home/ [caption id="attachment_794" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Byron Bay Main Beach"][/caption] Here they come the beautiful ones ... I have been avoiding the subject; it feels a little exposing (and that's the subject). I feel I might be misunderstood when I speak of what I cannot speak about. When I even hint at what I ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/610/byron-bay-beauties/ [caption id="attachment_773" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Byron Bay Camper Van"][/caption] The Byron Shire Council seams to be moving ahead with banning illegal camping, or parking your campervan on a car park over night. There have been complaints about noise coming from campervans parked in residential areas. The Byron Shire News quoted a Butler Street ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/769/crackdown-on-illegal-camping-in-byron-bay/ [caption id="attachment_747" align="alignright" width="202" caption="The ultimate Byron Bay hug"][/caption] There's no place quite like Byron Bay for progressive thinking, being and feeling. Byron Bay is one of the world's leading alternative therapy and cutting-edge psychology training grounds. Literally everyone has two or three professions. Your local plumber can fix your tap ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/746/about-byron-bay/ [caption id="attachment_701" align="alignright" width="203" caption="Geoffrey Robertson QC"][/caption] It is with enormous delight that organisers of the Byron Bay Writers Festival 2009 announce that the Festival Opening Address will be delivered on Friday 7 August by internationally renowned human rights lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson QC. Perhaps most popularly known as presenter of the ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/700/byron-bay-writers-festival-takes-silk/ Yes we have another 0.25% drop in the official interest rate down to 3%. Sounds like a good deal for all of you that are on a variable rate but I doubt if the banks will pass any of it on. Most of the loans we are writing at present are ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/682/byron-bay-property-search-newsletter-april-09/ [caption id="attachment_659" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Byron Bay in Sun and Rain"][/caption] There are two primary elements that make Byron Bay so beautiful, the sunshine and the rain. Byron is a sub-tropical region and is prone to spells of both draught and flooding. But happily there is usually a balance and this produces ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/500/what-to-do-on-a-rainy-day-in-byron-bay/ [caption id="attachment_647" align="alignright" width="249" caption="Brunswick Heads Kites and Bikes Festival"][/caption] "I told you it was a fun day out for all the family. But you would not listen. So for God's sake put your bra on, take your leather chaps off, get off the Harley Davidson and stop revving it. Dykes ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/646/brunswick-heads-kites-and-bikes-festival-09-byron-bay/ [caption id="attachment_622" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Wategos Byron Bay"][/caption] Would you like to be given a property in Australia's most sought after beach side community? Beautiful, subtropical climate, sweeping ocean and mountain views, dolphins playing in your front yard, great investment opportunity, etc. Sounds like the perfect Real Estate pitch. Today you can not ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/617/land-in-wategos/ Doom and Gloom - I assume! When I was a young guy in the 70s, there were lots of cults, fads and scenes etc. One outfit were the "survivalists" who decided to go bush, get off the grid and live off the land. I admit I flirted with this idea and ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/595/byron-bay-property-news/ 24 Mar 2009 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Savvy Restaurant, Level 2, 4/9 Fletcher Street Byron Bay  (02) 6685 7856 Success Tools for Hospitality and Retail Small Businesses in the Byron Region Free Morning Session Hospitality and Retail Specialists come to you in Byron Bay to share their expertise with you and show ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/587/success-event-in-byron-bay/ Ever wanted someone to hold you tight, feel safe, feel like they are almost a part of you? Wrap themselves around you - say that they will never let go? Someone that you can trust, in fact, someone that you have to trust with your life? Someone who is right ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/568/a-byron-bay-jump-to-remember/ Unbelievable but true. A man is fighting for his life after a vicious assault outside a Byron Bay hotel on Saturday night. The man who police allege bashed him is due to face court today charged with attempted murder. Police say the 31-year-old victim, from Pottsville, was punched and kicked and has his ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/566/another-brutal-bashing-on-byron-bay-streets/ This page has been moved. See the full Byron Bay Beach Review here. http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/465/lifes-a-beach-3-of-3/ In a Shire with hundreds of holiday lettings and a huge amount of wealthy drop-outs, there are literally thousands of spaces in need of cleaning every day. Over time we have noticed a chronic shortage of thorough and reliable cleaners that are willing to take this kind of work on. ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/494/cleaning-business-opportunity-in-byron-bay/ Property Price Drops???? Depending which report you have been reading property prices have dropped by an average 8%. It varies so much because people use different statistics from different areas, houses and units, median prices and averages. But of most interest to us in this region are these figures from Australian ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/477/byron-bay-property-prices-news-feb-2009/ By now everyone would have seen in the media the incredible devastation, pain and hardship the Victorian bushfires have caused and it really doesn't take many more details to emerge for us to realise that this may very well be Australia's worst ever crisis. So many fellow citizens having died ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/451/victorian-bushfire-crisis-appeal-from-byron-bay/ This page has been moved. See the full Byron Bay Beach Review here. http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/386/lifes-a-beach-2-of-3/ HARVEST   NEWRYBAR    (new venue) For men and women. Be inspired and informed Thursday May 21st at 8am sharp Our speaker will be Olwen Anderson on naturopathy Olwen Anderson is a nutritionist-naturopath, author and speaker based in Murwillumbah. She wants to know: Are you missing out on business opportunities because you just don’t have the energy ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/377/bangalow-business-networking-breakfasts/ I finally did it. I finally crossed off one more item on my to do list that has been lurking there for more than 10 years. I finally hired a Kayak and went up the Brunswick River with a group of friends. If you check the times, the tides and ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/354/take-me-to-the-water/ There’s a big difference in living in Byron Bay and being a tourist in Byron Bay. There is a whole different vibe. For example, the locals are smiling when it’s raining because it means green lush vegetation, beautiful gardens, pumping veggie patches and of course full water tanks. The tourists ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/329/drumming-and-the-punctured-perineum/ What I love most about Byron Bay is that it is so very full of surprises. I moved here 8 years ago and after having been born and bred in the UK I was, needless to say, a little culture shocked. Byron Bay offers the obvious clichés and stereotypes: hippies colliding ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/321/byron-and-the-old-woman-and-the-tattoo/ I have never been very enthusiastic about going to Markets. I generally find the same old rubbish recycled and/or freshly manufactured all over the world. Trite artefacts for eager holidaymakers wanting to make some inexpensive gesture to remind their friends and loved ones that they had a great time on ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/318/brunswick-markets-and-the-family-jugband/ OK - here I get to flex my testosterone whilst bragging about our beautiful bay. The bay of beauty, the bay of most easterly point, the bay of basking and bathing. At 7am you can find me walking from Byron Bay Surf club to the pass with 3 amigos in ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/316/big-girls-and-jelly-fish/ I can truly say that Byron Bay is different. It is the pioneer; the test ground; the pilot episode for a new reality show. Byron Bay is innovative, brave and full of heart. "Where's your proof. Where's all the empirical investigation? How can you be so sure?" Well, I have one ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/311/pink-nail-polish/ The sky is falling. Stocks and Shares are evaporating. The world is about to see a financial panic like it has never known before. I role over in my big comfortable bed in Byron Bay and I say, 'Who cares?' Now you might think I am a wealthy heartless bastard. But I ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/304/shop-local-support-business/ In an earlier blog I joked about me getting into cold waters at The Pass like an old lady with my 3 amigos in Speedos. This got me thinking about gender. Yes I went on a gender bender. Whilst swimming from The Pass back to The Byron Surf Life Club ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/295/the-heart-of-a-man/ I have two inspiring duck stories to illustrate the sweetness in pace and rhythm of our wonderful Byron Bay. Two little stories about how life can be. The first is about a dear friend. Melinda, a wonderful photographer who works in and around Byron Bay. She's smart with a heart. One ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/291/duck-trafficking/ Yes I occasionally lick my iphone.  Yes I am in love with it. Yes I sleep with it. I must stress that the relationship is not sexual but it's more like the mother-child bond. Very strong, seemingly unbreakable. Perhaps a little oedipal, perhaps a little electra-complex but nevertheless this is ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/281/iphone-therefore-i-am/ Welcome - I hope you will have a happy and prosperous 2009. It's good to be back at work and glad we have survived another silly season. The market is in a very interesting place at the moment with lots of things to talk about. Who wants to be on TV? "Location Location ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/276/byron-bay-real-estaste-update-jan-2009/ [caption id="attachment_135" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Senator Stephen Conroy"][/caption] Imagine a government proposing an internet censorship system that went further than any other democracy - one that is expected to slow down the internet by up to 87% and will make it more expensive, accidentally block 8% of legitimate sites, and miss the ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/132/poposed-internet-censorship/ Byron Shire Council is trying to clamping down on owners renting out their properties to tourists. The council previously attempted, unsuccessfully, to ban short term holiday letting in Byron Bay but has now drawn up new plans. Byron Bay Council has incorporated an "urban holiday letting precinct model" in its ... http://www.byronbaydirectory.com.au/blog/101/101/