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Feeling the stoke Panga film crew and the Noosa World Surfing Reserve’s Surf Code team celebrate the completion of filming of “Surf Code - Feel The Stoke”, a short video and a series of one-minute webisodes, designed to teach basic safety and etiquette in crowded surfing conditions. Conceived and produced by the Local Stewardship Council of the Noosa World Surfing Reserve, funded by Noosa Shire Council and GemLife resorts, the series of films was shot and edited over the past few months by Tewantin-based Panga Productions. It stars young local surfers drawn from Noosa Boardriders Club, Noosa Malibu Club and school groups. Said director Shaun Cairns: “The films have a serious message about health, safety and behaviour aimed at all ages, but we wanted to keep it light, so we’ve used the grommets to tell the story. They’re not only great young surfers, they also totally get that we all have to follow the basic rules to avoid mayhem in the surf on crowded days.” See page 4 for full story.
Surf Code cast and crew celebrate. Picture: SUPPLIED
Koala farewell By Margaret Maccoll
visitors are continually asking them where they can see a koala and they have to tell them there’s been no sightings but there is other wildlife such as turtles, goannas and wallabies to be found. “We would like to have koalas to show people but we would like them to have their peace as well,“ he said. The 4000-hectare park attracts a large number of tourists each year, eager to see the Australian native in its natural habitat. Queensland Koala Crusaders Megan Halverson said they had received reports of koalas sighted behind The J theatre and at Settler’s
Cove and they do move around. She said the QKC was working collaboratively with Noosa Council, Sunshine Coast Council and the University of the Sunshine Coast to work out what to do to support the long-term sustainability of koalas. QKC are nearing completion of a strategic plan for a koala sanctuary in the region, she said. Locations do not include Noosa Heads National Park which is cut off by development but one area mooted for the sanctuary is John’s Landing. Continued page 4 12463630-DL43-20
Only a year ago there was a good chance a walk in Noosa Heads National Park included the sighting of a wild koala, often at Tea Tree Bay, but for almost three months none have been seen. Queensland Koala Crusader and Koala Rescue Team member Bernard Jean has walked the park weekly for a number of years to monitor the dwindling koala population. “Last year we counted five in the park, four males and one female. The female was infertile so there was no interest in her from the males. I would hear the males bellowing (for a
mate). One went to Laguna Lookout. One was rescued and brought back to the park. He was seen at Tea Tree then we lost track of him. One I haven’t seen for the last year.“ Bernard said the last time he sighted a koala in the park it was a 10-year-old koala, “an old guy“ who he had seen regularly in the park over the past four years, usually in the same tree at Tea Tree Bay. “He had moved to the car park. He was near the entrance. There were about 50 people around him. He was so stressed out,“ he said. Bernard, who also volunteers at the visitor information centre at the national park, said
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