It’s on again, Friends of Freycinet Schouten Shenanigans working bee. Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now open. This year we are trialling a slightly different format. The working bee will run from25 November to 10 December and there will be three options available to volunteers: Option One will be from 25 November to 3 December. […]
August 12-16 saw a small group of Friends of Freycinet on the annual hunt for sea spurge along the east coast from Chain of Lagoons to Friendly Beaches. Recent climatic conditions had certainly changed the face of the beaches which may have been one of the reasons less plants were found this year, not that […]
Day 1 Volunteers (Ian, Joan, Bronwyn, Chris, Helen, Petita, Peter, Ros and John) met at the Freycinet Parks & Wildlife Service (PWS) workshop mid-morning on Monday to be welcomed and briefed by Ranger Marta on working bee plans and risk management. This was followed by a combined morning tea (thanks very much Joan for […]
Read about the efforts of Friends of Freycinet volunteers removing gorse on Schouten Island last December Schouten Island_Dec 2023
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 […]
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. […]
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 & […]
It was another productive working bee when eight eager Friends gathered in March at Freycinet National Park. With most of us camping in the dunes at Richardson’s Beach we were fortunate that the weather was kind to us, the sunsets were brilliant, and of course, the company was great. The focus for this working bee […]
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 […]
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 […]