Our week behind the lens: PHOTOS

NOWRA: Bomaderry's Sarah O'Meara with her son Jake Price, 3, who is recovering after suffering head and spinal injuries in a car accident in April.

KIAMA: Helen Plowman reminisces about the 175-year anniversary of the St Matthews school in Jamberoo. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS

NAROOMA: Relaxing back at home at Narooma after a mysterious five years away is a regal Sebastian with his owner Michelle Merry looking on.

EDEN: Jump up to 10 metres above Snug Cove during this year’s Eden Whale Festival on the Aero Bounce four-in-one bungee trampoline. The festival takes place on November 1-2. Photo: Aero Bounce.

SHELLHARBOUR: The Shellharbour Marine Rescue Commander Peter Kelf, boat crew Joe Vasconcelos, Stephen Boyd and Skipper Geoff Walls are excited to take charge of their new rescue boat. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS

PAMBULA: Vet, Dr Justin Daniel, of Pambula and Eden Vet Clinics, left, was quick to come forward with $300 in food vouchers for homeless woman ‘Sue’, which were given to Gavin Bell of the Social Justice Advocates of the Sapphire Coast.

TATHRA: The debate about whether Tathra Wharf should be fenced has had many come out on both sides of the argument.

NOWRA: A motorcade of about 50 bikes followed the hearse from Nowra to the Shoalhaven Lawn Cemetery at Worrigee for the funeral of well-known community campaigner Joe Yatras on Thursday.

MERIMBULA: Merimbula Public School students went crazy but their teachers weren’t alarmed; it was Crazy Hair Day, a Student Representative Council fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis and Seth Hooper shows off his radical new hair style.

NAROOMA: Karla Lowder and Siobhan Threlfall are hoping to go to Costa Rica to help the marine environment. Now they are both at Sydney University and it was in their Earth, Environment and Society class they heard about and later successfully applied for the San Juanillo, Costa Rica project.

KIAMA: Jamberoo business owner Frances Linnertson, has been heavily involved in council’s budgeted $300,000 for work on the Jamberoo CBD streetscape. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS

BEGA: Sally Pryor and Jenny Van Stekelenburg make a shelf at the Woodworking for Women workshop.

MOROCCO: Chris Goldsmith at one of the many ancient kasbahs along the route of 1000 kasbahs in Morocco with the Narooma News for the ongoing “Have News will travel…” feature.

EDEN: The Eden Koori Dance group perform a berry-picking dance for Eden Public School students, parents and staff at a special early NAIDOC Week assembly on Friday morning.

SHELLHARBOUR: Warilla High School students, Hayden Shoobridge, Emma Nau, Lachie Gromek and Brendan Muscat, celebrate their street art for the Telstra box project . Picture ELIZA WINKLER

NOWRA: Allan Searl from Greenwell Point has been told he will have to wait a year-and-a-half for a colonoscopy after his bowel burst.

EUROBODALLA: Members of the public rise to leave following the Eurobodalla Shire Council extraordinary meeting yesterday. Seats reserved for ERA councillors sat noticeably empty after they failed to show up to vote on their own rescission motion.

BEGA: Narooma Public School students (from left) Karissa Sydenham, Clare Giffen, Jordan Sharpe, Isaac Sultana, Sebastian Meijer and Jaymee Duryea are joined by teacher Mrs Merinda Antill (at rear) and ABC presenter Mr Ian Campbell (right).

BERMAGUI: The Greatest Shave event was held at the Bermagui Little Lambs Preschool and all the young students were impressed with the freshly shaved Sam Smith pictured at centre.

BEGA VALLEY: Celebrating at their graduation ceremony with Adult Ed trainer Barry Grant (third from right) are (from left) Layla D’Arnay, Grace Nelson, Ginger Bottari, Renee Quennell, Dale McCoy, Camille Hossack, Sally Telford and Connor Llewelyn.

BERMAGUI: Concrete for the long-awaited Bermagui Skate Park is being poured this week.

PAMBULA: Pambula Public School’s junior choir was in good voice as they sang the national anthem at the NAIDOC celebrations.

BEGA: Surrounded by family, Canberra cyclist Ian Cross arrives in Bega on Red Nose Day, which coincided with the third anniversary of his grandson Lachie’s death from SIDS.

NAROOMA: Karen Baker with one of the handbags made out of ties that are being sold to help fight breast cancer. Karen was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and last month had a lumpectomy to remove a lump found during her annual mammogram.

BROULEE: Broulee mum and education advocate Jesse Rowan is urging school communities to sit up and pay attention to Gonski reforms. She is pictured outside Parliament House, where she attended a recent lobby event.

BROULEE: Broulee mum and education advocate Jesse Rowan is urging school communities to sit up and pay attention to Gonski reforms. She is pictured outside Parliament House, where she attended a recent lobby event.

TOWAMBA: Year 6 student Mabel Ashburn sported a Minnie Mouse ’do at Towamba Public School's 'crazy hair day' on Friday, where 23 students raised $109 for research into cystic fibrosis.

PAMBULA: Pambula Public School’s junior choir was in good voice as they sang the national anthem at the NAIDOC celebrations.

BERMAGUI: Commissioning the new Steber rescue vessel BG30 at Bermagui harbour on Friday are Bermagui Marine Rescue Unit Commander Alec Percival, State Member Andrew Constance, Marine Rescue board directors Howard Staples and Bob Wilson and Commissioner Stacey Tannos.

MORUYA: Bill King and Kate Lyons clean off the signage of the Moruya Dry Cleaners, which has ceased trading after almost 60 years.

BROULEE: A Place to Call Home’s Abby Earl has an exciting future planned beyond the TV screen, but she will always call Broulee home.

MORUYA: Equipment failures forced the closure of Moruya District Hospital’s two operating theatres this week. Pictured is peri-operative nurse manager Marie Louden and Nurse Suzanne Smithers in operating theatre two.

EUROBODALLA: Rural Fire Service Far South Coast District Superintendent John Cullen is disappointed important equipment was stolen from the Boundary Mountain communication centre last week, impacting the service’s radio capabilities.

EDEN: The Hotel Australasia case will be back before the Land and Environment Court next week, with a section 34 conference slated for Thursday, July 10. The conciliation-type hearing will bring together representatives from Great Southern Developments, who wish to demolish the 110-year-old building to construct a supermarket, and Bega Valley Shire Council, who moved to heritage list the site in April.

BATEMANS BAY: Bega MP and NSW Treasurer Andrew Constance spoke at the Batemans Bay Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday night. Pictured is David Seymour, Darren Knight, Geoff Hatton, Trish Pye, Harvey Doberer, Jenny Clarke, Chris Jones and president Allan Rutherford and Andrew Constance.

BEGA: BigFace was constructed by staff and supported employees at Tulgeen Riverside Nursery for the Festival of the Face’s bonfire night.

BEGA: Service providers and community members met with NSW Shadow Minister for Housing and Shadow Minister assisting Women Sophie Cotsis (fourth from right) and Labor candidate for the Bega electorate Leanne Atkinson (centre) on Tuesday to discuss Specialist Homelessness Services funding.

SHELLHARBOUR: Lake Illawarra Little Athletics registrar Kevin McGarry has had enough of the numerous break-ins the club has endured over the past couple of weeks. Picture: GEORGIA MATTS

ULLADULLA: Current and former Shoalhaven City Councillors and council staff join mayor Joanna Gash and former long-serving Ulladulla Civic Centre manager Noel Hilder as they officially open the redeveloped centre on Saturday.

ULLADULLA: Willinga Park owner Terry Snow introduces State Member for South Coast, Shelley Hancock, to prize winning stallion Otford Valley Solar, as work begins on a major $5.5 million equestrian centre at Bawley Point.

ULLADULLA: Inspirational burns survivor Turia Pitt and friend Sarah Montefiore on the Great Wall of China during a trek that raised $200,000 for medical charity Interplast.

ULLADULLA: Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Jamie Briggs, and Federal Member for Gilmore, Ann Sudmalis, present funds to Gayle Dunn and supporters to help complete the Dunn Lewis Centre.

EDEN: The view from part of the new Bundian Way Tourist Trail near Oman Point, which should be ready in time for cruise ship visitors in late 2015 after the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council received $629,350 in NSW Government funding on Friday.

EDEN: Acting Inspector Clifton Scarlett briefs media on Monday night at Eden Police Station following murder suspect Scott Allen Miller’s arrest in Eden on Monday afternoon. The 42-year-old has since been charged with the rape and murder of 32-year-old Chinese national Renea Lau in Melbourne’s King’s Domain parklands on Saturday morning.

MERIMBULA: Merimbula’s CBD could look very different in the future should the council adopt the draft design guidelines for the CBD’s of the Bega Valley Shire.