A GROUP is being formed to explore the possibility of turning the stretch of coastline from Port Macquarie Breakwall to the end of Lighthouse Beach into a World Surfing Reserve.
Donna Liver, Secretary of the Port Macquarie Surfing Museum, shared the news on Sunday 22 February, during the Port Macquarie stopover of the East Coast Activation Tour.
Visitors were greeted by a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony conducted by Biripi elder Uncle Bill on the site of the proposed Port Macquarie Surfing Museum.
“I thought this was a fitting way of linking traveling people from all over the world to Port Macquarie in the traditional Indigenous way,” Alan Jeffrey, President of Port Macquarie Surfing Museum told News Of The Area.
The East Coast Activation Tour commenced on the Gold Coast on 20 February, with stops at Lennox Head, Angourie, Crescent Head, Port Macquarie. Merewether, Norah Head, Manly and Bondi, before finishing at Manly-Freshwater on Tuesday.
The tour was made up of delegates from Peru, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, USA, Bali, Easter Island, Costa Rica and Australia.
Delegates included Robert Araki, six-time Chilean National Champion; Catalina Zariquiey, ISA World Junior Championships Under 16 girls runner-up; and Nik Strong-Cvetich, CEO Save the Waves Coalition.
Andrew McKinnon, president of Gold Coast World Surfing Reserve, is host of the 2026 World Surfing Conservation Conference.
He explained that the common goal of the East Coast Activation Tour was protecting surfing ecosystems and managing amenities for future generations.
By Bill HARROW
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