Parents' Group
A reminder to have your say on Council's plans for our Bass Coast future - deadline 31 August. Donate without spending a cent! CPRRA can now receive the proceeds from the container deposit scheme Information on the clearing around Illawong campground Wonthaggi Seed Bank- their work behind sustaining the local plants - used by CPRRA and others A well deserved award to Tad Hendry, longtime resident and Firefighter of the Year
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Our next Working Bee will be
This month we're doing a planting on the slope just north of the boat ramp turning circle. Bass Coast Shire Council have prepared the ground by removing the weeds and we're planting this area out with indigenous plant species.
Meet at the Wonthaggi Life Saving Club car park at 9am.
Please wear clothing appropriate to the weather. The slope to be planted is quite steep so sturdy, ankle supporting footwear is strongly recommended. We will be able to provide planting equipment and gloves. Bass Coast Shire Council will provide the plants.
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 submitted 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.
