Our working bees do great work cleaning up and rehabilitating the local coastal reserves. You can see some of our current and past working bees listed below. Everyone is welcome to join in, with no experience necessary. Usually we ask you to bring your own hat and gloves, sunblock and water, and we occasionally have lunches or morning teas afterwards. Come and meet the locals and make Cape a cleaner and greener place too!
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Pete Muskens
In often changing and sometimes stormy weather, 5 of us went out and attacked the dense stand of boneseed west of the Cape Paterson Surf Life Saving Club. As can be seen from the photos - it was a hard fought battle in dense growth and undergrowth. There's more to do in this corner but it will have to wait till next year
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Pete Muskens
3 hardy CPRRA volunteers braved the bush to continue cutting the boneseed - one very dense area was cleared continuing on from our August working bee.
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A brave (and foolhardy?) five volunteers continued the work of the previous working bee and culled boneseed Pittosporum and shiny leaf from the fringes of the main infestation west of the Cape Paterson Siurf LIfe Saving Club. On the way we discovered a couple of makeshift abandoned campsites hacked out of the scrub.
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Pete Muskens
We had 14 hardy young at hearts turn up for some heavy duty bush bashing to try to quell the noxious weeds (in particular - boneseed) infesting the coastal reserve west of the Cape Paterson Surf Life Club. Occasional drizzle did not deter anyone from taking on this massive task. Everyone enjoyed it so much that we've decided to continue our work at next month's working bee.
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Pete Muskens
On a gale force wind day, 5 hardy volunteers headed out to F Break on second surf beach to continue our work on keeping sea spurge at bay. By 11 a.m. we were sufficiently wind blasted to call it a day a hundred meters short of the big blow out. Plants that had gone to seed from the autumn flowering were removed.
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Pete Muskens
An enthusiastic band of volunteers removed emerging plants from remnant seed load out of the dunes. Impressive to see that no flowering plants were picked indicating that as time goes on we'll be able to ensure that the natural habitat of spinifex grass is restored
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Pete Muskens
An enthusiastic band of multi-generational volunteers carried out a lot of planting. Great to see a whole of community effort.
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We had 16 volunteers for our Sunday working bee. We successfully planted 350 indigenous plants at the two locations (Allan Birt reserve and Opposite the Cape Paterson Surf Life Saving Club). The CPSLC site required a fair bit of cleaning up - it had obviously been a secret drinking venue for many years - we filled a full recycling bin with cans and bottles! At the Allan Birt reserve we augmented a lot of work that had been carried out there last year. There's some excellent wildlife habitat in there. Let's hope our plantings improve it.
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Pete Muskens
11 hardy souls embraced the glorious sunshine to cut, grub out and lop invasive ti - tree (and coastal wattle) from the heathland on the east side of the Channel path. Approximately 9 cubic meters of vegetation was taken or dropped in situ. It had been 8 years since our last venture on this site and we effectively managed to get most of the regrowth in the area last covered. The thriving communities of small coastal banksias, casuarina and pink heath were signs that previous work has been successful. It was noted that a working bee should be scheduled to cover the western side of the path sometime this year.
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