The kiss that is given by the groom to the bride at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!

DECEMBER 7 1797 - George Bass, in a whaleboat with a crew of six seamen, discovered the mouth of a river which he wrote ".....deserves no better name than Shoals Haven". This was in fact, the Crookhaven River.