Website for Pearl Beach
When Mr Ian Butler was preparing to move from Sydney to Pearl Beach, he found that there was a lack of adequate information about the village.
So he decided to set up a community project that would give residents and those interested in the area more information.
The end result is a new website that gives an extensive overview of the past and present aspects and features of Pearl Beach
The website is divided up into five sections.
The first section of the website contains a general overview of Pearl Beach and the wider Peninsula region.
This section includes information on schools, libraries, entertainment venues, emergency services and local council venues on the Peninsula.
It also contains maps of Pearl Beach, rules and regulations in relation to pets and the speeding limit to abide to while visitng, information on restaurants and accommodation venues in the area and a brief history of the site.
The biography section of the site contains information about past and present residents of Pearl Beach.
Included in the biography section are biographies of Mr Butler's late grandparents, Mr and Mrs Jack and Ruby Butler.
Mr Butler said that he intended to add to the biographies section once he could gain more information about Pearl Beach residents.
"Every person who lives or who has lived at Pearl Beach has an interesting story to tell or has an interesting story about them to be told and I am interested in recording their stories," Mr Butler said.
The community section of the website gives the contact number and address for the Pearl Beach Progress Association.
Mr Butler has included an extensive photo gallery on the website that seeks to examine different aspects of Pearl Beach.
There are photographs of the local flora and fauna on Pearl Beach, historical depictions of what Pearl Beach used to look like and pictures taken from different angles of the Beach.
Mr Butler has also listed contact details and his list of acknowledgements in the last two sections of the website.
He has dedicated the website to the memory of his late father, Wallace Charles Butler.
He says that it was his father who persuaded him to move to the Peninsula region when he retired and who gave him a block of land at Pearl Beach that he is presently building a new home on.
Mr Butler currently lives in Sydney but will move to Pearl Beach later in the year.
He has been a frequent visitor to Pearl Beach since childhood and, in addition to his late grandparents, he also has an aunt located there.
Once there he hopes that he can find more information about the past and present aspects of Pearl Beach to add to his website.
"I'm hoping that my website will prove of value to both residents who live at Pearl Beach and to anyone who has an interest in the area," Mr Butler said.
The website can be found at www.pearl-beach.com.
Owen Lewis, March 31