Sunday 20 January 2013

Celebrate Australia Day on the South Coast

Moruya

- breakfast will be provided at Ross Martin Park from 8.30am by the Moruya Lions Club and the Rotary club of Moruya. There will be competitions for children with prizes for the best decorated bike and rider based on the theme of Australian native fauna, a pet parade, horse shoe throwing and an ANZAC biscuit baking competition, The Moruya and District Citizen of the year for 2013 will be announced in the official ceremony at 10am.

Batemans Bay

Corrigans Cove
 a Big Australia Day Breakfast will be held at Corrigans Cove Beach Reserve. The Quota Club will serve more than 900 breakfasts using 190 loaves of bread, 80 dozen eggs, 35 kg of sausages, and 55 kg of bacon, and plenty of Vegemite and golden syrup for the damper. The day gets away at 8am with the Clydesdale Band, with a flag raising ceremony at 9am. There will be free children’s games and prizes for the best dressed dinky-di Aussie.

Narooma

Narooma Bridge
- Australia Day will be celebrated in Ken Rose Park from 8.30am, and will feature a Citizenship Ceremony. The Rotary Club Charity Duck Race will raise funds to provide funds for future shelter for people left homeless by a disaster somewhere around the Pacific Region. Hundreds of plastic ducks will be dropped from a bridge into the river, with the finishing line at the Apex Park boat ramp near the netted beach. The Australia Day Breakfast will be put on by the Narooma Surf Life Saving Club and the Narooma Lions Club.  The cost is $5 and includes a tea or coffee, sausages, bacon, eggs and toast and sauce.

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