Aim for this Working Bee:
Our usual Clean Up Australia event for March 1st has been cancelled due to our outstanding successes in past years. Ever wanted to find out about our iconic rock pool at the Bay Beach? As an alternative working bee activity we are hosting an educational working bee. We'll be doing a 45 minute tidy up of the boat ramp planting at the end of Hut View Road. We'll proceed down to the rock pool (as far as we know, the only one made and expanded by human power on the Victorian coast) with an explanatory talk and then go on to the Wonthaggi Life Saving Cub BBQ area for an early lunch.
Report by
Pete Muskens
We had a good turn out (18 volunteers) for the short (45 minute) working bee where the slope at the boat ramp was weeded in preparation for a council spray. Some new faces were a welcome addition to our regular stalwarts! We then proceeded to the Bay Beach rock pool where 44 people heard the story of how the rock pool was created by the Wonthaggi coal miners over 17 years of hard work, when time off and the tides allowed. In attendance was Ron Gilmour (founding member of the Wonthaggi Life Saving Club) and the families of the miners who had many stories to tell of the pool's construction. Mike Tesch did an amazing job of relating the story.
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