The Bangalow Chamber of Commerce website lists Bangalow as being 15 mins from Byron Bay. In tourist terms it has always been described as a “quaint village inland from Byron Bay, worthy of a day trip”. To be honest I’ve always been happy to play “second fiddle” to our eastern cousins. But enough is enough, Byron Bay is now 15 mins from Bangalow, and well worth a trip if you could be bothered driving the distance. Why? Well

If you type in B.I.L.L.Y. into an Internet search, pages of information bombard your screen. Included in these pages are; 12 towns in France, one in Northern Ireland, five films and novels, three musicals, the name of a crater on our moon and Billy, the name of the pygmy hippo belonging to the late U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Well after this report is published another Billy will have entered the list of notorieties on the World Wide Web. The reason being is that on Saturday Billy Lee officially gained entry into the Bangalow Bluedogs under 6’s Hall of Fame. Billy Lee the quiet, unassuming rookie from Bangalow took on the might of Byron Bay and unlike another famous namesake, Billy the Kid who took on the Lincoln County in the 1800’s, our Billy Lee won!

Nostradamus

Nostradamus was a French author who has attracted an enthusiastic following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events. However most Academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's poetry are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations. Those Academics have now turned their attention to the Bangalow Bluedog website where last week Coach Damian Bisogni made some bold predictions of his own.