Ballina (pop. 29,240) is a fishing port and favorite family resort. In the mid-19th C gold was found in the sand of the estuary and on the beach. A predecessor of Ballina on the site was a settlement established on Shaws Bay around 1840 where timber was loaded on to ships.
The Ballina Naval And Maritime Museum is interesting and features a steam riverboat exhibit and balsa-wood raft which crossed the Pacific from South America to here.
Address: Ballina Naval And Maritime Museum, Las Balsa Plaza Regatta Avenue, Ballina, NSW 2478, Australia
Hours:
9am-4pm
Always closed on: Christmas - Christian (December 25), Good Friday - Christian
The Tropical Fruit Research Station is open to visitors.
The station grows fruit such as bananas, avocadoes, macadamias, pecans, pawpaw, sapodillas, mangoes, oranges, lemons, mandarines, limes, grapefruit, persimmons, tamarillos, kiwifruit, blueberries and low-chill peach and nectarines.
Address: Alstonville Tropical Fruit Research Station, NSW Agriculture, Box 72, Alstonville, NSW 2477, Australia
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