Friends of the Henty Multi-Day Working Bee
Our nest multiday working bee of the year is coming up on the 14th and 15th of September! Here's the rough plan for the weekend,
Day 1: Walking the Ocean Beach Trail, weeding regrowth broom sites from 8:30am to 3pm with lunch provided. Dinner provided that night also
Day 2: Weeding broom at the end of the Ocean Beach Trail from 9am to 12pm.
We hope you can join us, either for one of the days or both! To come along, you must be signed up as an NRE volunteer. You can do so here, and it takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete: https://app.betterimpact.com/Application?OrganizationGuid=aa3c186c-ebde-4f84-9091-6abaef6dc2be&ApplicationFormNumber=1
For the first day, we will meet at the Parks and Wildlife Workshop (17 Herbert Street) at 8:30am. We will carpool out to the Ocean Beach Trail Carpark from there
We will work on the broom, pulling it out or cutting and pasting, until around 3pm, stopping for a lunch break at 12.
If you are around on Saturday night, we will have a group dinner, either at the West Strahan Beach BBQ's or People's Park BBQ's depending on the wind direction!
For the second day, we will meet at the Parks Workshop again at 8:45am. Then head to the Ocean Beach Carpark. We will walk up the beach to the end of the Ocean Beach Trail where we will be cutting broom in the coastal grassland and underneath the closed scrub forest. Here we can also inspect the progress of the recently released sea spurge biocontrol!
As always there will be tea and snacks provided on both days.
We will be watching the weather, and the event may be postponed or changed depending on this.
For those coming from out of town, please get in touch if you need accomodation, we can help to organise a spot to camp!
If you are travelling from Hobart, please get in touch as we are organising carpooling, and we may need extra drivers.
What to bring:
– Raincoat
– long sleeved shirt and long pants
– warm jumper
– sturdy boots
– sunscreen
– sunhat
– water
– a cup or mug for tea
If you have your own pair of loppers, or secateurs, please bring these along too!
Please note that we will be working in remote areas of bush without phone reception. We will have an emergency PLB on site.
RSVP either by email, or through the Wildcare event. Please RSVP by the 8th of September so we know how many people to cater for.
Please get in touch at friendsofthehenty@gmail.com if you have any questions!
This event is open to Wildcare members. Please login to register or, we warmly welcome you to Join Wildcare if you are visiting our site. For help with logging in or joining Wildcare please contact our friendly team at memberservices@wildcaretas.org.au or ph 0361654230.
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Friends of the Henty Multi-Day Working Bee
Join our next multi-day working bee of the year as we walk the Ocean Beach Trail, weeding broom sites.