For those who love living here, or want to

If you call the Barrington Coast home, or you’re visiting someone who does, you’ve landed in the right place.

This section Live is the inspiration for our website.

It’s where we celebrate the people, stories, history and everyday brilliance that make this region genuinely worth living in, not just visiting.

Panoramic view of Wallis Lake and Thirty Three Degrees.

Here you’ll find honest guides for hosting friends and family without losing your mind; portraits of the remarkable people who make this community what it is; tales from the region’s past that deserve to be remembered; and the kind of practical local knowledge that used to only travel by word of mouth.

Consider it your neighbourhood newsletter. Just with better writing and no council jargon.

Three women dressed 1950s-style in pink coats inside a vintage Kombi van, at Old Bar Beach Festival NSW

Host like a pro

Your visitors are arriving Friday. Here’s everything you need to show them a genuinely good time, without running yourself ragged in the process. Local itineraries, insider tips and recommendations to make it look like you planned it all along.

A couple on a viewing platform overlooking a waterfall in a forested gorge, at Ellenborough Falls NSW.

Loved by a local

The Barrington Coast runs on people. Farmers, artists, chefs, teachers, fisherfolk, dreamers and the quietly extraordinary locals who hold this community together. This is where their stories live.

A woman sits on rocks at a lookout admiring the views across deep forested valleys stretching to the horizon, at Barrington Tops NSW.

Good to know

The practical stuff. Local services, what’s on, seasonal tips and information that makes life on the Barrington Coast just that little bit easier to navigate. Think of it as the knowledge a good neighbour would share over the fence.

A view of Gloucester NSW looking down Church Street towards the central business district when the crepe myrtles are in bloom.

Local stories

Every bend in the road here has a story behind it. Gold rush ghosts, bushranger trails, Worimi songlines, floods that changed everything and characters the history books forgot to mention. Pull up a chair.