Friends of Freycinet October Working Bee

Friends of Freycinet

Friends of Freycinet have held another productive and enjoyable October working bee with volunteers and Freycinet National Park staff. Here’s what they got up to: DAY 1 Volunteers (Ian, Joan, Mal, Catherine, Chris Peter, John, Ros) met at the Parks workshop at 10:30am where we were greeted by Ranger in Charge Alena and briefed on […]

Friends of Freycinet August 2023 Sea Spurge Purge

Friends of Freycinet

Ten enthusiastic Friends of Freycinet along with our willing and very able Parks Rangers scoured the beaches of the East Coast for 3 long days from Little Beach in the north to South Friendly Beach in the south. Each team averaged about 10 kilometres per day along beaches, into estuaries and up and down dunes. […]

May Mayhem – a week at Freycinet

Friends of Freycinet

A Friends of Freycinet (FOF) working bee It was another beautiful week on the east coast. There were some magic sunrises and sunsets along with some chilly starts.  Ten volunteers joined us for the week along with some of the staff from the Visitors Centre. Thank you to Peter, Ros & John, Marilyn, Ian & […]

Happy Birthday Friends of Freycinet!

Friends of Freycinet

Can you help them celebrate with the gift of your time? Formed when Wildcare Tasmania was in its infancy, the Friends of Freycinet are this year, celebrating their 20th anniversary! Much has been achieved in time and the group continues to coordinate five, week-long working bees each year. This 2003 article in the SunCoast News […]

Friends of Freycinet Schouten Island working bee

Friends of Freycinet

December 2022 saw an intrepid group of ten Friends of Freycinet head to Schouten Island to tackle the gorse for another year. Due to an unfavourable weather forecast we delayed our departure by a day and instead the group met at the PWS workshop on the afternoon of Tuesday 6th. After our briefing and finalising […]

Friends of Freycinet – 3 days in the life of a Working Bee

Friends of Freycinet

OPPORTUNITIES IN OCTOBER WORKING BEE (10-12TH) Another productive and enjoyable volunteer working bee with Freycinet National Park staff. DAY 1 Volunteers (Ian, Joan, Don, Lee, Lorraine, Mal, Rob, Peter, Ross, Ros and John), met at the Parks workshop at 10:30am where we enjoyed a delicious morning tea with Parks staff, provided by Fee and others. […]

An amble in August

Friends of Freycinet

The Friends of Freycinet met at Freycinet National Park 15-19 August for a 5-day working bee. After a sodden weekend the weather cleared on the east coast to overcast days for our working bee.  On arrival, and after catch-ups, we had an induction while we lunched on soup provided by Ranger Fee before sorting ourselves […]

Friends of Freycinet – May Mayhem working bee

Friends of Freycinet

May saw the Friends assemble once again at Freycinet for the May Mayhem working bee.  Gathering mid-morning on Monday 16th for morning tea and briefing the group then split into two and spent a productive afternoon removing weeds from nearby areas.  The normal culprits of course were found and removed – bridal creeper, bluebell creeper, […]


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