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Over two beautiful days - Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 June - twenty dedicated volunteers and Parks Victoria Rangers came together to transform the garden beds around the new Tidal River Visitor Centre. The team achieved an outstanding effort, planting over 1,000 Poa's and grasses along with a few grass trees and other small shrubs. The plants were carefully guarded to give them the best start in their new home. Cam was very pleased with everything that was achieved, while Ma

Under leaden skies, a large group gathered in the parks office at Tidal River with our most thoughtful ranger, Lucy. Cuppas in hands, we perused the new, informative & impressive visitor centre. It is a wonderful work in progress and will be a jewel when completed. It was then off to Darby River picnic area to meet up with Clinton and learn many things from his vast knowledge of First Nations peoples and their deep connections to the land, along with his basket of incredible

Lead by grassland restoration ecologist Ranger Brooke 22 Friends of the Prom volunteers enjoyed a glorious clear winter’s day on the heathland opposite the Lilly Pilly carpark. This was a new site for our group and gave us great views in all directions. A controlled burn to reduce Gaudium laevigatum, commonly known as the coast tea tree, in 2022 has seen excellent recovery of heathland plant species, but also recurring tea tree seedlings. We formed a long line at one end of t