Hooded Plover report, membership reminder, and time to deadhead those Agapanthus!
Draft Bass Coast Statement of Planning Policy and news on the Wonthaggi Life Saving Club building permit.
Go to the News Page for an archive of past editions of Cape Conversations.
Our next Working Bee will be
This month we'll continue the boneseed control program in the coastal reserve west of the Cape Paterson Surf Life Saving Club.
Note that this working bee has been rescheduled to the 21st of October to avoid any clashes with the referendum on the 14th of October. Meet at 1st Surf Beach Car Park at 9a.m.
Snake season has well and truly started so please make sure that you're wearing sturdy shoes and socks, long pants and long sleeved tops. Bring hats if sunny, raincoats if rainy. If you have preferred tools (loppers secateurs gloves etc) please bring those - otherwise Bass Coast Shire Council have loaned us their equipment and gloves, dabbers etc. Given the difficult location we can't provide morning tea so please bring your own any light refreshments. BBQ lunch will be provided afterwards.
Without consultation and ignoring reports they commissioned themselves, the State Government extended Cape Paterson’s Northern Boundary.
This means the area north of Seaward Drive is open to MASSIVE overdevelopment. Currently there is a proposal for the addition of over 900 new houses, more than doubling the current size of Cape Paterson. It’s just too much.
FIND OUT THE LATEST, AND HOW YOU CAN HELPThe committee advising the Minister for Planning is currently reviewing the evidence and submissions from the last year and will submit a report in late June 2023. See the Victorian government website for a whole of shire overview.
Temperatures are rising but the rain continues.
Flax-lilies are flowering.
Pied Currawongs call loudly and often.
The flowering of plants such as Myrnong, (Yam Daisy), indicates the tubers are ready for eating. Bulen-bulen (Superb Lyrebird) males have finished displaying.
Days and nights are of equal length.
"You get a frog and tie his back legs and then put a great big cod hook . . . And you'd have to put a weight. Otherwise you'd see the frog back on the log . . . You'd catch a codfish that way." Martha Wandin Nevin, 1969.
