The Get Outside season started first night with wild and wet weather but that did not deter 19 people from enjoying the evening together. Ranger Richard talked to us about birds, Jodie cooked up a great dinner and participants went for a walk around the reserve. Thanks to our volunteers who turned up on the […]
11th Australian Wooden Boat Festival Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th & Monday 9th February 2015 Wildcare groups, the Friends of Deal, Maatsuyker and Tasman Islands, will be on the Hobart waterfront for the three days of this spectacular gathering of all things nautical. On show will be displays of the history of these remote islands as […]
Fancy a job as a caretaker at Bruny Island Quarantine Station? You are in luck, as applications have just opened for the coming season from April through to October 2015. Volunteer Caretakers will provide a physical presence at the Quarantine Station, open the Station to visitors on weekends (closed Monday to Friday), provide visitor information […]
Tuesday 6 January 2015 A Wellington Park Bushcare event Although we have done quite a number of track work sessions with PWS this is probably the first time that our normal working bee has been used for that purpose. One of our biggest turnouts resulted, so track work was not an unpopular change. Three PWS […]
Tyenna River 20 December 2014 The original plan for the day was to work on the Lake Nicholls track but as we did not finish putting in the plants beside the Tyenna River in November it seemed that our efforts should be directed to completing that task instead. The plants had been obtained through a […]
Spectacular 2015 Lighthouses of Tasmania Calendar – an all Tasmanian production – Sentinel it stands upon projecting cape, And guards the reefs along the ocean’s verge. Starts into life a dim, gigantic shape, Holding its lantern o’er the restless surge. Arthur Frederick King, lightkeeper Building lighthouses around Tasmania’s precipitous and isolated coastline must have been […]
Today (Dec 11th 2014) we are launching our new website. After many years with our old website we now have a more modern presence on the web that better utilises the technology of today. Our original site was developed well before the introduction of smart phones and tablets and was definitely getting a bit dated! […]
FRIENDS OF DEAL, MAATSUYKER AND TASMAN ISLANDS – WILDCARE INC FUNDRAISER RAFFLE Raffle tickets (in books of 10 tickets) are now available for the Friends of Deal, Maatsuyker and Tasman Islands – Wildcare Inc. major fundraising raffle. All funds raised will support the ongoing restoration and conservation of the natural and built heritage of Deal, […]
The Get Outside with Community has had a successful week holding two training days with 37 new volunteers joining the Branch. Sessions on cross cultural issues, Job Risk Assessments and story telling were held. The Branch will hold its first field trip in January and are very excited about the depth and wealth of the […]
Its all too easy to become disheartened when you first face a major weeding project. Large areas of weeds require regular followup in a timely manner but the Friends of Freycinet have some great examples showing that this regular committed work can pay big dividends. Below are the before and after shots from two years […]