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
Following our successful planting bee last month, this month we're concentrating on woody weeds again as the boneseeds display their yellow flowers. We'll be aiming to get any accessible pittosporum, boneseed and other weeds adjacent to Surf Beach Road. If we have enough numbers we'll split up with some going into the area we've already partly cleared west of the Cape Paterson Life Saving Club.
Wonthaggi Life Saving Club Car Park at 9:00am.
Bass Coast Shire Council will provide loppers, saws, gloves and dabbers. If you have your own favourite gloves and weed eradicators, please feel free to bring those. It will be the start of snake season so please wear long trousers, sturdy footwear and long sleeved shirts. We can't provide a morning tea this time so please bring your own water and any refreshments. Depending on demand, and whether a volunteer can replace Leonie (our regular BBQ maitre d'), we might be able to provide a BBQ lunch on completion.
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.
