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
Seven hardy souls took their chances on possible rain and went into bush to hit the woody weeds hammer and tongs! A further significant area was cleared. There was some re-growth from last year's working bees but this was quickly dealt with. It was such a satisfying morning that we decided to hit this patch again at next month's working bee.
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Pete Muskens
We had 11 volunteers clean up around Cape Paterson. A small turn out compared to other years, but mitigated by the fact that each year there is less rubbish to pick up
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We had eight volunteers attend - we covered the southern section of the conservation reserve (about 4,500m2) and cleared it of bluebell creeper shown above). Conditions in the end were pretty warm. Note the length of the bluebell root on the photo below. Approximately 15 chaff bags of weed were disposed of.
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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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