Bateau Bay, New South Wales
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Bateau Bay is a coastal suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales
, Australia
. It is part of the Wyong Shire local government area
. Bateau Bay lies in the area known as Darkinjung to Indigenous Australians
. "Bateau" is French
for "boat."
and 17 km northeast of Gosford
's central business district
. In 2006, it had a population of 11,599 people. Bateau Bay Beach provides access to Crackneck Point, which is a popular local surfing spot. Crackneck Point Lookout (274 m high) is a short distance from the beach, where there is a large clearing and carpark with information boards and a picnic-barbecue area.
. A distinctive foreshore feature of the park's coastal cliffs are extensive rock platforms, which are good bases for rock fishing or low tide exploration. Wyrrabalong National Park is a haven for marine, bird, and native wildlife, which include goannas, bandicoots, fantails, and the tawny frogmouth
. A 1.6 km walk through Wyrrabalong National Park links Crackneck Point Lookout and Forresters Beach.
Bateau Bay is home to several parks that facilitate all sports including rugby league
, rugby union
, soccer
, Australian rules football
, softball
, baseball
, and cricket
. The Entrance District Sporting and Community Centre (EDSACC) is located on The Entrance Road, between Yakalla Street and Eastern Road. The precinct is separated into three areas: EDSACC North Ovals (soccer), EDSACC South Ovals (rugby league), and a Sports Centre that bisects the two. At the very south of the precinct is a golf
driving range and a ten-pin bowling
centre. EDSACC is home to the Killarney District Football Club and The Entrance Tigers Rugby League Club.
The Bateau Bay Recreation Centre (now known as the PCYC) offers tennis court
s, indoor basketball court
s, and a gym
nasium, and was opened in 1979 by the Governor
of New South Wales
, Sir Roden Cutler
.
The precinct also has a golf
driving range, which was formerly a football field, but was deemed unsafe due to its uneven surface. The home side—The Entrance Bateau Bay Blues—was forced to relocate to a field on Mingara's property at Tumbi Umbi
. The Blues have since resettled at Eastern Road Oval.
Pat Morley Oval, located on Cresthaven Avenue, was until the early 1980s a rubbish tip
and nightsoil depot and was used as a football oval in the 1990s. Development of a new oval adjacent to the existing Pat Morley Oval will be completed in 2010, and will be used for cricket and Australian rules football. The Entrance Bateau Bay Blues AFL Club will relocate there in 2011. Central Coast Softball will also use the new ground in the summer season. The main ground is home to The Entrance Bateau Bay United Soccer Club, the oldest soccer club on the Central Coast, having been established in 1949.
Sir Joseph Banks Oval, located behind Cresthaven Shopping Centre, is used by The Entrance Rams Rugby Union club.
Bateau Bay is home to Stockland Bay Village
, a shopping centre formerly known as Bay Village which was opened on 24 January 1985 and is operated by Stockland
, a major property developer in Australia
. Major retailers include Coles
, Woolworths, Aldi
and K-mart
. Free-standing McDonalds and Red Rooster
restaurants are located on the shopping pad to the north-east of the main centre.
A smaller centre, Cresthaven Shopping Centre, with a Franklins
, Brumby's and Video Ezy
, opened in 2003. Several other clusters of shops are located throughout Bateau Bay. There are also shops on Bateau Bay Road between Harbour Street and Parkside Avenue, the corner of Bateau Bay Road and The Central Coast Highway as well as on Coleridge Road.
Bateau Bay Bowling Club is located on the corner of Pheasent Avenue and Bias Avenue. It is owned by the Canturbury Leagues Club and features TAB facilities, a bar, and a bistro
, as well as an undercover carpark. The club has three bowling green
s, has more active bowling members than any other club in the state, and is strong in competitions run statewide.
The Entrance Leagues Club was established in 1992 and is located on The Entrance Road adjacent to Stockland Bay Village
. It has 11,000 members and has recently undergone renovations. It now features a large carpark as well as TAB facilities, bar and bistro, function room, and courtesy bus. The Entrance Leagues Club is a major sponsor of The Entrance Tigers Rugby League Clubs.
The Bateau Bay Hotel is located on The Entrance Road between Lumby Drive and Cresthaven Avenue. Its approval date for building was 4 February, and the day of opening was 8 September, in 1980. It features a large carpark as well as TAB facilities, two bar areas, drive-through bottle shop, bistro, and beer garden, as well as a motel. Bateau Bay Hotel is now a sponsor of The Entrance Rams Rugby Club.
There are three State schools in Bateau Bay:
is bisected by The Entrance Road, a main Central Coast arterial route. Residents of the eastern side and many of the area's real estates
have campaigned for the eastern side to be called East Bateau Bay, as it is expected that property values would be boosted.
Bateau Bay is also home to one of New South Wales'
highest revenue collecting speed cameras
. The camera is located on The Entrance Road between Shelly Beach Road and Yakalla Street. The camera is the seventh largest collector of revenue, collecting 14,057 fines for $1,813,086. The camera has achieved notoriety because it is placed in a school zone
that operates at slightly different hours to most school zones in the area. Its reliability has been questioned after an incident in 2005, in which a driver was fined for speeding twice in two minutes.
Red Bus Services is the local bus
operator and runs several routes through Bateau Bay. The operator's depot is also located at Bateau Bay on Coleridge Road. Routes that operate through Bateau Bay can be found on the Red Bus website.
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It is part of the Wyong Shire local government area
Local Government Areas of New South Wales
The local government areas of New South Wales, Australia have been subject to periodic bouts of restructuring and rationalisation by the State Government, involving voluntary and involuntary amalgamation of areas...
. Bateau Bay lies in the area known as Darkinjung to Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....
. "Bateau" is French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
for "boat."
Geography
Bateau Bay is about 6 km south of the town of The EntranceThe Entrance, New South Wales
The Entrance is a district centre and town of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Wyong Shire local government area. At the 2006 census, The Entrance had a population of 2,632 people....
and 17 km northeast of Gosford
Gosford, New South Wales
Gosford is a city located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 76 km north of the Sydney central business district...
's central business district
Central business district
A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In North America this part of a city is commonly referred to as "downtown" or "city center"...
. In 2006, it had a population of 11,599 people. Bateau Bay Beach provides access to Crackneck Point, which is a popular local surfing spot. Crackneck Point Lookout (274 m high) is a short distance from the beach, where there is a large clearing and carpark with information boards and a picnic-barbecue area.
Wyrrabalong National Park
Much of the Bateau Bay area is dominated by the southern 140 ha section of Wyrrabalong National ParkWyrrabalong National Park
Wyrrabalong National Park is located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was added in 1991. The park consists of two main sections. The northern section consists of approximately 480 hectares and covers a substantial area of the peninsula between The Entrance and Norah Head as...
. A distinctive foreshore feature of the park's coastal cliffs are extensive rock platforms, which are good bases for rock fishing or low tide exploration. Wyrrabalong National Park is a haven for marine, bird, and native wildlife, which include goannas, bandicoots, fantails, and the tawny frogmouth
Tawny Frogmouth
The Tawny Frogmouth is an Australian species of frogmouth, a type of bird found throughout the Australian mainland, Tasmania and southern New Guinea. The Tawny Frogmouth is often mistaken to be an owl...
. A 1.6 km walk through Wyrrabalong National Park links Crackneck Point Lookout and Forresters Beach.
Sporting facilities and parks
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
, rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
, soccer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
, Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, and cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
. The Entrance District Sporting and Community Centre (EDSACC) is located on The Entrance Road, between Yakalla Street and Eastern Road. The precinct is separated into three areas: EDSACC North Ovals (soccer), EDSACC South Ovals (rugby league), and a Sports Centre that bisects the two. At the very south of the precinct is a golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
driving range and a ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.-Summary:The lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels Ten-pin bowling (commonly just...
centre. EDSACC is home to the Killarney District Football Club and The Entrance Tigers Rugby League Club.
The Bateau Bay Recreation Centre (now known as the PCYC) offers tennis court
Tennis court
A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles.-Dimensions:...
s, indoor basketball court
Basketball court
In basketball, the basketball court is the playing surface, consisting of a rectangular floor with tiles at either end. In professional or organized basketball, especially when played indoors, it is usually made out of a wood, often maple, and highly polished...
s, and a gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasium, and was opened in 1979 by the Governor
Governors of New South Wales
The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the eleven other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her...
of New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Sir Roden Cutler
Arthur Roden Cutler
Sir Roden Cutler, was an Australian diplomat, the longest serving Governor of New South Wales and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces.-Early life:Arthur Roden Cutler was born on...
.
The precinct also has a golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
driving range, which was formerly a football field, but was deemed unsafe due to its uneven surface. The home side—The Entrance Bateau Bay Blues—was forced to relocate to a field on Mingara's property at Tumbi Umbi
Tumbi Umbi, New South Wales
Tumbi Umbi is a mostly semi-rural suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, located northwest of Bateau Bay. It is part of the Wyong Shire local government area....
. The Blues have since resettled at Eastern Road Oval.
Pat Morley Oval, located on Cresthaven Avenue, was until the early 1980s a rubbish tip
Landfill
A landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...
and nightsoil depot and was used as a football oval in the 1990s. Development of a new oval adjacent to the existing Pat Morley Oval will be completed in 2010, and will be used for cricket and Australian rules football. The Entrance Bateau Bay Blues AFL Club will relocate there in 2011. Central Coast Softball will also use the new ground in the summer season. The main ground is home to The Entrance Bateau Bay United Soccer Club, the oldest soccer club on the Central Coast, having been established in 1949.
Sir Joseph Banks Oval, located behind Cresthaven Shopping Centre, is used by The Entrance Rams Rugby Union club.
Shopping
Stockland Bay Village
Stockland Bay Village is a shopping centre located on The Entrance Road at Bateau Bay on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is owned and operated by Stockland, a major property developer in Australia.- Stores :...
, a shopping centre formerly known as Bay Village which was opened on 24 January 1985 and is operated by Stockland
Stockland (company)
Stockland is a diversified Australian property development company.Founded in 1952 as a residential developer, it listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1957 and diversified into commercial developments in the 1960s.Its current activities include:...
, a major property developer in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Major retailers include Coles
Coles Supermarkets
Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741 stores nationally Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers. It has 741...
, Woolworths, Aldi
ALDI
ALDI Einkauf GmbH & Co. oHG, doing business as ', short for "Albrecht Discount", is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany...
and K-mart
Kmart Australia
Kmart Australia Limited is a discount department store chain owned by Wesfarmers. It operates 172 stores in Australia and 15 in New Zealand, with its head office located in Mulgrave, Victoria. Wesfarmers uses the Kmart name under licence from Sears Holdings Corporation.-History:Kmart Australia...
. Free-standing McDonalds and Red Rooster
Red Rooster
Red Rooster is an Australian fast food restaurant chain. Red Rooster specialises in selling roasted chicken and other related products.- History :...
restaurants are located on the shopping pad to the north-east of the main centre.
A smaller centre, Cresthaven Shopping Centre, with a Franklins
Franklins
Franklins is a discount supermarket chain selling packaged groceries and perishables throughout New South Wales, Australia. It owns the No Frills brand of generic products, promoted by their mascot, "Red Sock". It is known as "Australia's Original Discount Grocer"...
, Brumby's and Video Ezy
Video Ezy
Video Ezy is Australia's largest video and DVD rental chain with over 550 stores within Australia as well as over 140 stores in New Zealand and 200 throughout South-East Asia. It was founded in 1983.- Competition :...
, opened in 2003. Several other clusters of shops are located throughout Bateau Bay. There are also shops on Bateau Bay Road between Harbour Street and Parkside Avenue, the corner of Bateau Bay Road and The Central Coast Highway as well as on Coleridge Road.
Clubs
Bistro
A bistro, sometimes spelled bistrot, is, in its original Parisian incarnation, a small restaurant serving moderately priced simple meals in a modest setting. Bistros are defined mostly by the foods they serve. Home cooking with robust earthy dishes, and slow-cooked foods like cassoulet are typical...
, as well as an undercover carpark. The club has three bowling green
Bowling green
A bowling green is a finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of lawn bowls.Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on them...
s, has more active bowling members than any other club in the state, and is strong in competitions run statewide.
The Entrance Leagues Club was established in 1992 and is located on The Entrance Road adjacent to Stockland Bay Village
Stockland Bay Village
Stockland Bay Village is a shopping centre located on The Entrance Road at Bateau Bay on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is owned and operated by Stockland, a major property developer in Australia.- Stores :...
. It has 11,000 members and has recently undergone renovations. It now features a large carpark as well as TAB facilities, bar and bistro, function room, and courtesy bus. The Entrance Leagues Club is a major sponsor of The Entrance Tigers Rugby League Clubs.
The Bateau Bay Hotel is located on The Entrance Road between Lumby Drive and Cresthaven Avenue. Its approval date for building was 4 February, and the day of opening was 8 September, in 1980. It features a large carpark as well as TAB facilities, two bar areas, drive-through bottle shop, bistro, and beer garden, as well as a motel. Bateau Bay Hotel is now a sponsor of The Entrance Rams Rugby Club.
Notable citizens
- Ryan O'HaraRyan O'HaraRyan O'Hara is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently captains Welsh club Crusaders of Europe's Super League...
(born 1980) formerly played for The Entrance Tigers. He has played in the NRLNational Rugby LeagueThe National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...
with the Canberra RaidersCanberra RaidersThe Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership since 1982...
. O'Hara is currently contracted to the Wests TigersWests TigersThe Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's mid-western suburbs. They have competed in the National Rugby League since they were formed at the end of the 1999 season as a joint-venture club between the Balmain Tigers and the Western Suburbs...
. - Joseph FurstJoseph FurstJoseph Fürst was an Austrian international film and television actor known for his English language roles....
(born in ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, 1916; died in Bateau Bay, 2005) was an international film and television actor known for his English language roles. He appeared as Professor Zaroff in the Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
story The Underwater MenaceThe Underwater MenaceThe Underwater Menace is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 14 January 1967 to 4 February 1967. The story constitutes Jamie McCrimmon's first journey with the Doctor as a travelling companion.-Plot:The TARDIS...
. He also had recurring roles in The Young DoctorsThe Young DoctorsThe Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March...
and four episodes of A Country PracticeA Country PracticeA Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...
. - Israel Cannan is a local musician. In 2004, his Heroes In Heaven EP was released by ECP Records. The first single, Deep, received airplay on local and national radio stations and the video made it to MTVMTVMTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
and Channel VChannel VChannel [V] is the brand name for multiple international music television networks owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation.-Channel [V] International:...
. He has also appeared on the Australian soap opera Home & Away and, beginning with the 2007 season, Cannan performed the opening theme. He has also played with a range of Australian artists, including The WhitlamsThe WhitlamsThe discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
, Sarah BlaskoSarah BlaskoSarah Elizabeth Blaskow , is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. After fronting Sydney-based band Acquiesce from the mid-1990s, Blasko developed her solo career from 2002. In 2007, she won the 'Best Pop Release' for What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have at the ARIA Music Awards, which...
, and Ash GrunwaldAsh GrunwaldAsh Grunwald is an Australian radio announcer and blues musician.-Early career:...
. - Adam HarveyAdam HarveyAdam Harvey is an Australian country music singer. Harvey has been nominated three times for an ARIA Music Award and is a multiple CMAA Award winner.-Biography:Adam Harvey got his start musically learning country classics on the guitar as a small boy...
, an Australian country music singer, lives in Bateau Bay. - Nathan BuckleyNathan BuckleyNathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
, a Collingwood Magpies player, was born in Bateau Ba,y and is a regular back in his home town during the off seasons. Buckley is an ardent supporter for the Central Coast Bears to join the NRL.
Schools
- Bateau Bay Public School was established in 1980 and has an enrolment of 739 students in Kindergarten to Year 6.
- Brooke Avenue Public School was established in 1985 and has an enrolment of 452 students in Kindergarten to Year 6.
- Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College (The Entrance Campus) was originally opened as The Entrance High School in 1970. The High School was effectively closed in 2001 when the NSW State Government announced that the school, alongside Tumbi High School and Berkeley Vale High School, would form the Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College. It became Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College (The Entrance Campus) in 2002. It has 576 students in Years 11 and 12.
Issues
The suburbSuburb
The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...
is bisected by The Entrance Road, a main Central Coast arterial route. Residents of the eastern side and many of the area's real estates
Real estate broker
A real estate broker, real estate agent or realtor is a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate/real property and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy...
have campaigned for the eastern side to be called East Bateau Bay, as it is expected that property values would be boosted.
Bateau Bay is also home to one of New South Wales'
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
highest revenue collecting speed cameras
Road-rule enforcement camera
A traffic enforcement camera is an automated ticketing machine...
. The camera is located on The Entrance Road between Shelly Beach Road and Yakalla Street. The camera is the seventh largest collector of revenue, collecting 14,057 fines for $1,813,086. The camera has achieved notoriety because it is placed in a school zone
School zone
A school zone refers to an area on a street near a school or near a crosswalk leading to a school that has a likely presence of younger pedestrians. School zones generally have a reduced speed limit during certain hours.-Fines:...
that operates at slightly different hours to most school zones in the area. Its reliability has been questioned after an incident in 2005, in which a driver was fined for speeding twice in two minutes.
Transportation
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
operator and runs several routes through Bateau Bay. The operator's depot is also located at Bateau Bay on Coleridge Road. Routes that operate through Bateau Bay can be found on the Red Bus website.