Old Bangalow Road was once a quiet, leafy backwater – the kind of place where the arrival of a car was greeted with mild surprise. These days the road is, to use a local phrase, ‘like flamin’ Pitt Street’.

It was a sad day for many people in Lennox Head when the iconic donkeys had to leave their hilly home of many years on the old Condon farm, but they have well and truly landed on their hooves at Coopers Shoot, thanks to Lisa Willey from Free Rein Horsemanship.

Another local holiday accommodation operator is looking to cash in on the lucrative rural wedding market, this time in Coopers Shoot.