Local Business and Tourism

Brian Cadd’s album launch in Cowes and Yarram

THROUGH a career spanning over six decades, Brian Cadd stands among the greats as a trailblazer in Australian music. His latest offering ‘Dream Train’, out now, is the country album he was always destined to make and represents a return to his...

Michael Giles

05 Apr 2024

Local Business and Tourism

Friends of Coal Creek makes submission to council on the park’s future

By Andrew Paloczi FRIENDS of Coal Creek (FOCC) is calling for revitalisation of the tourist attraction, which would entail restoration, maintenance of the facility and an increase in activities there, advising South Gippsland Shire Council that...

Andrew Paloczi

14 Mar 2024

Local Business and Tourism

High and wide praise for Sundays at Archies Creek

THEY must be doing something right, a lot right at the Archies Creek Hotel after earning the high praise of renowned Irish folk singer-songwriter Luka Bloom who called by last Sunday as part of his Australian tour which next heads to Canberra and...

Sentinel-Times

27 Feb 2024

News

Where there’s a generator, there’s a way, says Craig Young

THE Sulo bins were tumbling down the main street, debris from stripped trees covered cars and you couldn’t see the footpath from the shop window as the winds reached cyclone force and rain and hail swept through the town. Amazingly, though Craig...

Michael Giles

18 Feb 2024

News

What they did when ‘the love boat’ arrived on Valentine’s Day

DON’T worry, the famous Phillip Island Penguin Parade will be open tonight, Wednesday, February 14, for the guests from the latest cruise ship to anchor off Rhyll in Western Port, the Viking Neptune, but there have had to be some hasty alterations...

Michael Giles

14 Feb 2024

Local Business and Tourism

Three more cruise ships for Phillip Island’s summer

IT’S been quite a lucrative summer for Phillip Island and its cruise shop schedule with seven boats arriving and another two to come before the end of February. On Sunday this week, it was the boutique ship, Viking Sky, with its 930-passenger and...

Michael Giles

11 Feb 2024

Local Business and Tourism

Squeaky Beach success a boost for Gippsland, they say

THE peak body for tourism promotion in this region, Destination Gippsland, has, predictably, jumped on the back of Squeaky Beach’s success to lead up its push into autumn. But don’t stop at the Prom, they say, Gippsland has a lot going for it!...

Sentinel-Times

11 Feb 2024

News

Yarram high on the list of Australia’s best murals

IF THE idea of turning Yarram into ‘Heesco town’ with 25 stunning murals by one of the world’s best mural artists, Heesco Khosnaran, was to get noticed then it’s mission accomplished for the movers and shakers whose initiative it was to put...

Michael Giles

10 Feb 2024

News

Best beach, but what about the Prom’s crappy toilets?

It looks like missing paint but hey, who knows? WHILE celebrating in State Parliament during the week that her beloved Squeaky Beach had just been named the Number 1 Beach in Australia, the Member for Eastern Victoria Melina Bath had a backhander to...

Sentinel-Times

08 Feb 2024

News

Shops sell faster than pizza at Inverloch

A RECORD crowd turned out for the holiday weekend auction of two shops located at 2A-2B Ramsey Boulevard, Inverloch on site at 11.30am on Saturday, January 27. Hundreds of people spilled out, over the footpath and on to the street as auctioneer...

Michael Giles

05 Feb 2024

People and Lifestyle

It’s a long way to come to go kiteboarding

A passing seagull gets in on the act. IT’S the second time that Adri Kunz and Teddy Meller have found their way to Inverloch’s Anderson Inlet to go kiteboarding but when the wind and weather is right, there’s no better place in the world and...

Michael Giles

24 Jan 2024

News

Band plays as ‘Regatta’ passengers arrive on Phillip Island

Regatta2_0424 A choppy sea made it slow going for the Regatta’s passenger tenders coming ashore at Rhyll on Phillip Island but the warm welcome they received included a jazz band. THE band didn’t play “Waltzing Matilda” when guests from the...

Michael Giles

19 Jan 2024

People and Lifestyle

Warren’s pictures worth a thousand words

THE CFA radio chirps away in the background occasionally interrupting Port Albert artist, one time fire brigade captain, Warren Curry, as he explains the heritage of some of his paintings. The studio at the rear of his historic shop and residence is...

Michael Giles

13 Jan 2024