Our Working Bees

May 2021 Working Bee

This working bee was a follow up to our 5 year (and counting!) project to eliminate woody and viniferous weeds to the Undertow Bay foreshore and restore our coastal banksia woodland. Ten participants trawled through the gully between...

April 2021 Working Bee

The objective of our April working bee was to pull up an infestation of sea spurge (Euphorbia paralias) located in the sand dunes half way between Cape Paterson and Harmers Haven.  The colonisation of the sea spurge weed on the primary d...

March 2021 Working Bee Report

On Sunday 7 March we met at Allan Birt Reserve and joined the annual Clean Up Cape Paterson event. People worked in teams to cover allocated areas and this contributed to the sense of improving our community.  It was good to see...

November working bee 2020

Over the last few months small groups of dedicated local volunteers have spent many hours planting the remaining indigenous seedlings in the Undertow Bay coastal reserve.  Today’s Covid-safe working bee, our last for 2020, was revisiti...

October 2020

Report:October’s working bees were split into two locations: Working bee 1 involved four volunteers walking west from Wilson’s Road to Harmers Haven pulling sea spurge as they walked. Happily only a few hot spots were found; evidence...

Complimentary Working Bee August

A supplementary working bee was quickly added during the week, before Covid19 stage 3 restrictions came into place. Planting and setting up more wallaby guards. Please note this was not a normal working bee, a small dedicated group...

July 2020 Working Bee

Given the hard lockdown imposed on Metro Melbourne we did well on Saturday the 11th of July to have 11 local participants to plant 150 plants along the cliff top path going from the Orana camp ground past the steps next to Pea Creek...

Working bee March 2020

A group of about 20 people, enjoyed the morning ( a shortened working bee), walking around picking up things that others kindly left behind. In other words, a great group of people for a couple of hours walked around the foreshore of Cap...

Working Bee 8 February 2020

For the first working Bee for 2020 we joined forces with the Friends of Harmers Haven to continue the eradication of Sea Spurge from the foreshore at Harmers Haven. Sea Spurge is an invasive weed that is colonising the dunes and causing ...

Working Bee 14 September 2019

A beautiful sunny day to be on the sand dunes near Harmers Haven with keen eyes searching for Sea Spurge. About 15 happy volunteers broke off into two groups heading east and west of Wreck Beach to hunt and weed sea spurge. Click on the...

Working Bee 10 August 2019

Hail and gale force winds were no obstacle for the 16 strong team of volunteers who were keen to plant in any weather to complete the revegetation work that started at last month’s working bee.  Click on the title to read more and look...

Working Bee 13 July 2019

Gale force winds and rain squalls did not deter the hardy band of eleven determined volunteers who headed to the eastern end of UnderBay coastal reserve on Saturday morning. Their mission was to plant the first batch of indigenous plant ...

Working Bee 8 June 2019

A beautiful slightly crispy cool morning saw twenty three keen volunteers come out to do some preparation in areas we will be planting in next month. One group went over the plantings from last year to check, weed around, remove guards...

Working Bee 13 April 2019

For the April working bee we joined forces with Friends of Harmers Haven and went searching for Sea Spurge at Wreck Beach, Harmers Haven. Eighteen enthusiastic volunteers split into two groups, one heading east from Wreck Ck footbridge a...

Clean Up Australia Day 3 March 2019

A big thank you to the 32 volunteers who came to the Clean Up Cape Paterson day on March 3rd.  This was part of Clean Up Australia which supports and encourages local communities, schools and businesses to undertake a clean up event....

Working Bee 10 November 2018

This was the last working bee of 2018 and we had around 20 eager volunteers to tackle Cassia St Reserve. This is a reserve we have worked on before, removing woody weeds and replanting. This working bee was about the maintenance of the t...

Working Bee 13 October 2018

About 20 enthusiastic volunteers (some first timers too!) came out for a fun morning removing sea spurge from around “F” break beach (end of Wilsons Rd) and towards 2nd Surf. We were mindful of the hooded plovers around,...

Working Bee 8 September 2018

On Saturday 8th September an intrepid band of sea spurgers removed their shoes and braved the raging waters of Wreck Creek to access 2 km of coastline from Wreck Beach, Harmer’s Haven to Second Surf Beach, Cape Paterson. Click on the ...

Working Bee 11 August 2018

A forecast of rain, wind and hail did not deter the hardy band of 13 volunteers who fronted up to the WLSC carpark at 9am for a morning’s planting along Pea Creek in the Undertow Bay foreshore reserve. Luckily for us the rain eased to...

Working Bee 14 July 2018

Twenty enthusiastic volunteers planted 490 tubestock in the Undertow Bay foreshore reserve near Pea Creek. Lesley gave us a tubestock planting demonstration aimed at improving the consistency of our method and increasing plant survival...

Working Bee 16 June 2018

A very successful working bee was held with 23 in attendance. Despite an early shower the weather held out. We moved and stacked woody weeds, mostly mirror bush, to prepare for planting next month. We also planted 90 native tubestock tow...

Working Bee 14 April 2018

A very dedicated 12-15 volunteers braved the windy conditions to do some woody weed removal. Luckily we were relatively sheltered from the wind on the slope. We had to pull the pin and had an extended morning tea due the rain settling...

Clean Up Australia Day 4 March 2018

A big thank you to the 31 volunteers who came to the Clean Up Cape Paterson day on March 4th.  This was part of Clean Up Australia which supports and encourages local communities, schools and businesses to clean up one day/year.  8 b...

Working Bee 10 February 2018

The weather was warm and the sand dry – perfect for pulling up Sea Spurge. So after meeting at Wonthaggi LSC car park we headed for the Wilson Road end of Second Surf Beach and worked our way eastwards removing Sea Spurge regrowth from...

Working Bee 11 November 2017

The last working bee for 2017 was spent removing Sea Spurge regrowth from the sand dunes at Harmers Haven. We started searching for Sea Spurge seedlings near the Coal Creek footbridge and worked our way eastward for the duration of the w...

Working Bee 14 October 2017

Cassia Street Reserve on the corner of Cassia St and Surf Beach Road was the focus of our October working bee. CPRRA cleared the reserve of blackberries, sweet pittosporum and mirror bush, and extensively planted it with indigenous speci...

Working Bee 9 September 2017

We had a small but successful Spurge working bee on Sat 9th Sept with barbeque lunch at the Lifesaving Clubhouse afterwards. It was good to have our President there in person. ...

Working Bee 12 August 2017

An enthusiastic band of volunteers completed our last planting for the year in the area between Orana campground and Undertow Beach. 410 indigenous tube-stock with guards were planted by lunchtime. Well done everyone and thanks for...

Working Bee 17 June 2017

  Volunteers continued working in the foreshore area at the western end of Undertow Bay. This area is located between Orana campground and the coast. Woody weeds which had previously been cut down and poisoned by local contractor, Envir...

Working Bee 8 July 2017

A big thanks to the 23 enthusiastic volunteers who made our first “planting” working bee for 2017 a huge success. We put in 370 locally indigenous plants ranging from grasses and ground covers to coast banksias which can grow to 10+ metr...

Working Bee 12-May-2012

On a cold and windy Saturday 12-May-2012, 20 community volunteers gathered to do some serious work on both our 2012 projects: – continuing the restoration of the Foreshore Reserve; and, – working to continue containing the sea spurge inva...

Working Bee 14-Apr-2012

The working bee held on 14-Apr-2012 was very successful with work being done on both Sea Spurge and Foreshore Restoration projects. Although a smaller than usual group of 16 volunteers showed up, quite a lot was accomplished … Prior to t...

First spray of Sea Spurge 7-Mar-2012

As part of the CPRRA “Purge the Sea Spurge’ grant project, spraying has been carried out by professional contractors on the area between Bay and Second Surf Beach.  Click on the image left to see an enlarged version that shows the area c...

Working Bee 11-Feb-12 – Sea Spurge

The first working bee  for 2012 took place on Sat 11-Feb and was dedicated to Sea Spurge removal. This is part of the work to be carried out under one of the two grants received for this year. You can read more here about the Sea Spurge ...