Magazine competition

Photography competition 

Win a $100 voucher 

Take a photo of your favourite art in Hobsons Bay and tell us why for the chance to win a $100 voucher for a local business of your choice.

The winners will be published in the next edition of Hobsons Bay Community News and featured on Council's social media channels.

Entries close Sunday 29 June at 6pm.

Only one entry per person is permitted. View the terms and conditions.(PDF, 118KB)

    

April/May writing competition winners

Theme: living by the bay

Open winner - Andrew Ung

Morning light glints on wet sand— a long-neck turtle 

lumbers across the path, ancient, deliberate. 

I freeze. Time slows. 

Further on, the bay offers more: 

a cormorant’s dive, 

silver fish swimming, 

the sigh of seagrass at low tide. 

Every walk holds secrets— 

a shell, a tide-smoothed rock, 

the way the water remembers 

and forgets. 

Home is this: the surprise of small things, 

the bay’s quiet heartbeat. 

Under 18 winner - Ryan, 13

Waves crash, the breeze flows, 

Teddy chases where the sea goes. 

Ryan breathes, his heart slows, 

Altona Bay, where peace grows.

Shortlist 

Open - Geraldine Murphy 

A gentle breeze, clouds drifting across the sky, salty air. 

Strolling down a modern pier, pylons shackled by mussels. 

Radiant sunbeams pierce the crystal water - glittering, glistening, glowing. 

The stillness broken by daring divers, backflipping from the safety of the rails. 

The joy of fishermen, reeling in their catch. 

Back to the shore, children laughing and squealing, greedily gulping gelato, splashing, swimming. 

Silver gulls scanning the scorching sand for scraps – zooming, diving, thieving a hot chip. 

Sitting quietly now, along the shoreline, observing all that is around. 

Deep breath in, deep breath out; content; this is my home. 

Under 18 - Zoe, 17

Whispers of waves, a gentle sigh, 

Sunrise paints the canvas sky. 

Lily glides through morning mist, 

Nature’s beauty, hard to resist. 

Seabirds call, a melody free, 

In the Hobsons bay, my heart’s decree. 

Promised shores, where dreams take flight, 

Living in Hobsons bay feels so right. 

Previous winners