The Step Back into King Street Heritage Festival and Port Stephens Triathlon will keep residents entertained next Saturday, and bring visitors to the area.
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Both events will be held in the Port on Saturday, May 20.
The King Street heritage festival returns for a third year to celebrate its heyday as a busy river port.
The event in Raymond Terrace will run from 10am to 3pm and feature activities celebrating a bygone era.
King Street, which will be closed to traffic for the festival, was the original main street of Raymond Terrace and features many historic buildings, some dating back to the early 1800s.
This year, the old Richardson and Scully building (formerly the Newcastle University Aquatic Centre), built in the 1860s, will be open for the first time in years for people to look inside.
Stalls with vintage wares and home-made crafts, feather quill writing, knucklebones, quoits, live traditional acoustic music and traditional workshops are just some of the activities that will be on offer at the festival.
Visitors can also join a fun ‘majestic beard’ competition and a best bonnet contest.
One of the highlights of the day will be the Black Joak Morris Dancers from Sydney, returning to the festival to perform traditional English Folk dances, which all are invited to.
The Port Stephens Triathlon, held on the Tomaree Peninsula, will also make its return on May 20.
Marked as the most fun event on the triathlon calendar and for many the end of the triathlon season, the Port Stephens Triathlon Festival has events for all shapes, sizes, ages and ability.
There is four different distance races starting with the 200m swim, 10km ride and 2km run in the “enticer” up to the standard distance race where athletes will compete over a 1.5km swim, 40km and finish off with a 10km run.
The swim course takes place off One Mile Beach, the bike course goes through Tomaree National Park and the run leg through Nelson Bay.
The atmosphere of this end of season race is a great family friendly event with many rivals going head to head battling it out for the final points in the tri series.
The event will run from 6.30am to 4.30pm.
It will involve road closures and speed restrictions around One Mile and Anna Bay.
The bike course will affect residents in Gan Gan Road and Frost Road while the run course will affect residents in Koala Place, Eucalyptus Drive, Melaleuca Drive and Casuarina Close.
Access to One Mile Beach will also be affected on the day.
