This is a special part of the country. Viewed from the air, Ballina is surrounded by a complex network of waterways that ultimately flow into the Richmond River and from there, into the Pacific. Highly fertile, the land around Ballina has been settled for thousands of years. Middens at the Chickiba Creek of East Ballina reveal that Aboriginal people have lived in the area for at least 2000 years. The natural richness of the area soon attracted European settlement once colonisation was underway....