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Discover Historic Pambula
Feast your eyes on items from a bygone era whilst sipping your preferred tea and nibbling on some scrumptious delights at STELLA’S VINTAGE TEA ROOM PAMBULA.
After a leisurely Afternoon Tea, a short walking tour to view and discuss a few buildings of significance is planned. The Pambula Courthouse and Police Station is included as it is one of the 4 Heritage Listed buildings of Pambula.
Come along and enjoy stepping back in time…
4th May
Crime Fiction Heroes in Movies, TV and Novels
We all know and enjoy detective, thriller and spy heroes in novels, movies and on TV: detectives like Vera, Banks, Morse, Lewis, Rebus, Bond, Jason Bourne, Poirot, Miss Marple, the Saint, Phillip Marlowe and hosts of others. But why is this so? What makes them heroic? Is it just that they get the bad guys? Or is it something more? What do they have in common?
Join Ted in taking a closer look at our favourite characters, revealing what makes them tick and why we can't get enough of them. The answer might surprise you - it lies in the deep, deep past, way back at the dawn of Western literature.
23rd June
Empire of the Grasses
Bruce Leaver, from Bermagui, will deliver another of his fascinating talks about the evolution of this planet we live on.
As Earth cooled and dried out, culminating in the ice sheets, one group of plants adapted and emerged to dominate arid ecosystems separately on every continent. The great grazing herds and ancestors of humans were part of these new ecosystems. The grasses went on the provide major food sources for human settlements and domesticated livestock.
5th May
The Lighthouse Keeper
Our presenter Greg Hansen is Engineer Manager with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority which involves the management of AMSA’s marine aid to navigation network asset management, engineering and project delivery function. Greg has been working from home in Kalaru for the past 4 years.
Gregs talk will describe the life of modern day lighthouse engineer, some of the challenges experienced, will describe modern optic technologies adopted in historical lighthouses and enhancing offshore assets resilience to large storm events.
Question time rounds off Gregs presentation.
19th May