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LIFE’S A BEACH

AFTER two years of the best blue-sky weather the mid-north coast of NSW can offer, the heavens opened for the third annual Rattletrap festival on the beach at Crowdy Head, north of Taree, in May. Heavy showers lashed the event all morning, then tapered off in the afternoon. All the action is centred either side of low tide, so it was all done and dusted by three in the afternoon, at which time the clouds promptly parted as if on cue and the sun

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