2017.07.26 Another walk and talk for the Woodridge students. Very well organized this time with the students split in three groups each doing a specific activity in turn. Ellie explaining our work in the reserve. Another lady talking about the wildlife and a group led by Rob tackling Podalyrias Afterwards all students got lunch by […]
2017.09.17 Today we did a walkabout just to see how our various trail signs had fared and truth be told, not too good. Most have burnt. On a positive note though we found the borehole and one of the property pegs at last. The signs definitely have seen better days Walking through the forest we
Signage inventory. Read More »
2017.07.12 Some more post-burn pictures today. Since the burn we have walked the trail quite a few times, first the recce the day after the fire, then armed with some tools to clear away the burnt sticks and then also to show the Wednesday walkers. As we have led the end of the trail up
Even though we had said ‘Never again’ it didn’t take long before we got to think about a new bird hide and this time with a twist. To give it some protection from the inevitable fire we would put in in the water! This of course gave raise to a whole new set of challenges.
Bird Hide–The Wendy House Read More »
In March 2016 a fire swept through part of the reserve including the Arboretum and the hide was irreparably damaged. A lot of the work we did creating the Arboretum was wiped out, including signage and fencing. It was a good opportunity to rethink the location of the hide and, after much discussion, we settled
Bird Hide – prelude Read More »
2017.07.05 We had to be at the Reserve early today because the Wednesday Walkers had told us they wanted to give us a donation as a thank you for laying out trails for them and what a generous donation it was. They will probably make even more use of the Reserve now that other places
As Thomas made it quite clear that the emergency pipe route is only temporary we thought it to be a good idea to already prepare part of the route along the fence so we took 3 lengths of pipe and already tied them to the fence. A few days later we got a donation from
And still the pipe Read More »
2017.06.19 For various reasons most of the usual members could not make it today so we had a pathetic turnout I had a faint hope some of the recent new Facebook friends would show up but no such luck. One advantage of that was though that no lengthy explanations were required and like a well
July monthly meeting Read More »
2027.06.21 As the veggie garden is dependent on tour water we managed to get permission from Thomas to run a temporary pipe across his land and we got help from David, the veggie garden’s manager, and his helper, Tony. It meant dragging pipes all the way from the Reserve across the gully and up
2017.06.21 Whilst we could get by in the nursery using municipal water for the time being the community veggie garden is entirely dependent on our pipe so we decided to tackle that first. It turned out to be quite a complicated affair as our next door neighbour, Thomas, is not keen to have our pipe
