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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March 2021 Working Bee Report On Sunday 7 March we met at Allan Birt Reserve and joined the annual Clean Up Cape Paterson event. People worked in teams to cover allocated areas and this contributed to the sense of improving our community. It was good to see that the amount of rubbish collected reduced again this year compared with previous years although we still managed to collect 11 bags of rubbish and recyclables as well as three abandoned bicycles. A big thank you to Rohan Brown for organising the event and to Leonie Thiele for preparing the barbeque lunch afterwards.
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The objective of our April working bee was to pull up an infestation of sea spurge (Euphorbia paralias) located in the sand dunes half way between Cape Paterson and Harmers Haven. The colonisation of the sea spurge weed on the primary dunes contributes to steepening the face of the dunes thus impacting adversely on Hooded Plover breeding sites. It also competes with the growth of native spinifex & pigface. We combined with Harmers Haven Residents and Ratepayers Group to do this work and 10 enthusiastic volunteers set out from Wreck Beach carpark at 9:30am. Half of the group went straight to the infestation, about 1 km east of Wreck Beach, while the rest traversed the dunes on the way pulling up any sea spurge seedlings that had emerged over the summer. Despite gale force winds (at times blowing up hill!) and driving rain, by midday the infestation had been cleared and that section of dunes were free of any emerging seedlings. The sodden volunteers really appreciated the hearty lunch provided by our Harmers Haven friends in a lovely warm cottage. A very successful working bee in somewhat trying conditions.
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This working bee was a follow up to our 5 year (and counting!) project to eliminate woody and viniferous weeds to the Undertow Bay foreshore and restore our coastal banksia woodland. Ten participants trawled through the gully between the fore dune and the cliffs from the eastern most path westwards to the Pea Creek steps. Plantings were cleared of invasive and smothering vines and woody weed regrowth re-cut and re poisoned. Work was carried out in glorious sunny weather conditions unlike the last working bee!
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