Day: February 6, 2026

DATE:  Thursday 22.01.2026 
PLACE: Torakina Park, Brunswick Heads NSW
PRESENT: Norma Watts, Richard Watts, Robyn Braithwaite, Quendryth Young, Vivien Royston, Angela Smith.

Summertime, and the Cloudcatchers’ Group celebrated its eightieth gathering of haiku poets at the spot where it all began. It was in the December summer of 2005 that John Bird assembled a group of writers who had indicated a yearning to learn more about haiku. The site was Torakina Park, a picnic spot at the mouth of the Brunswick River, at Brunswick Heads, on the north coast of New South Wales. So this is where we gathered once more to celebrate our eightieth ginko, twenty summers later.

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