Working Bee at Melaleuca Janet Fenton (Friends of Melaleuca) March at Melaleuca is working bee time. From Friday 20 to Sat 28 the place was a hive of activity for FoM’s 7th working bee. Our Ranger Ian Marmion was whisked away on a helicopter to supervise the dismantling of MONA’s controversial installation near Forest Lag, […]
Friends of Melaleuca are calling for expressions of interest from volunteers for a working bee at Melaleuca, 5 – 12 March 2016. We have lots of building jobs on the program for this season. Skills required: Building, joinery, carpentry, painting, handy-person, photography and documentation, data entry, track-work. (Qualified builder required for museum ceiling lining job and operating […]
It seemed a good idea when Friends of Melaleuca was offered the opportunity to take over the Deny King Bird Observation Hide as a space to house a small museum. Because of the increasing vulnerability of the endangered Orange-bellied parrot, the bird monitoring program was moved to a location further away from the busy airstrip […]
Where Melaleuca Inlet broadens into Forest Lag before flowing into Bathurst Harbour, there is a quiet nook called Claytons Corner. A jetty there is a favoured refuge from the ‘Roaring Forties’ for small yachts and fishing boats, and a little up the bank a small cottage is hidden among the trees. The cottage snuggles next […]