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
Go to the News Page for an archive of past editions of Cape Conversations.
Our next Working Bee will be
For our last working bee of the year, we've decided to continue our boneseed and pittosporum eradication efforts in the costal reserve west of the Cape Paterson Surf Life Club. We've made great inroads into this infestation and we are keeping on top of regrowth. Next year's effort will be to try to convince Parks Victoria that boneseed eradication is important on their side of the coastal reserve!
First Surf Beach Car Park at 9 a.m. Lunch time BBQ will be at the Wonthaggi Life Saving Club shelter at 12 p.m.
Bass Coast Shire Council will provide loppers, secateurs, dabbers gloves and pruning saws. If you have you own favourite implements, please feel free to bring those. Please bring your own refreshments and wear clothing appropriate for the weather. Note that snakes are about so please wear sturdy footwear, long pants and long sleeved top.
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.
