Geelong VCE students recently got hands on in the protection of the environment as the first participants in a new coastal environmental education program. The enthusiastic year 12’s from North Geelong Secondary College were helping to preserve threatened coastal Moonah Woodlands as part of the Great Ocean Road Coast Committee’s recently launched Environmental Education and [...]
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Students take lead on coast care
Posted in Coastal biodiversity, Community, Community, Cultural heritage, Indigenous plants, Top 10, Uncategorized, tagged Great Ocean Road, GORCC, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, litter, coast, communication and engagement, Torquay, beach, education, conservation, Coast Action/Coastcare, community, environment, fauna, Surf Coast, coastal management on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Protecting spectacular Point Addis
Posted in Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Community, Community, Cultural heritage, Managing the coast, Volunteers, Weeds and native vegetation, tagged healthy coast, protecting the coast, weeds, volunteers, Crown land, collaboration, coast, passion, beach, native vegetation, biodiversity, cultural heritage, conservation, community, community groups, fauna, Point Addis, habitat, Surf Coast on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stand at Point Addis and look east to Port Phillip Heads in the distance. Gaze west along the coast to the Split Point lighthouse at Aireys Inlet. Look across the southern ocean and glimpse gannets diving or swallows swooping past the cliff face. Spectacular Point Addis and the Ironbark Basin are fairly new additions to [...]
Volunteers Restore Coastal Heathland
Posted in Coastal biodiversity, Cultural heritage, Managing the coast, Uncategorized, Volunteers, Weeds and native vegetation, tagged Anglesea, beach, coast, Coast Action/Coastcare, collaboration, community, conservation, environment, fauna, flora, healthy coast, indigenous plants, passion, projects, protecting the coast, restoration, volunteers, weeds on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Most would agree the coastal environment along the Great Ocean Road is arguably one of the most beautiful natural locations in the world. The region is bursting with spectacular sights of dramatic cliffs, huge surf, and pristine beaches all delicately highlighted by one of Australia’s largest collections of indigenous flora and fauna. Part of the [...]
Acknowledging our coast’s original managers
Posted in Cultural heritage, Managing the coast, tagged coast, conservation, cultural heritage, cultural heritage management plan, education, Great Ocean Road, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, Indigenous Australians, interpretation, middens, Wathaurong on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Many of us who love and respect the coast also acknowledge and respect the role that Indigenous Australians have played in its history and the ongoing relationship that they share with the land as traditional custodians. The Wathaurong people were our coast’s original settlers and land managers, arriving on what is now the Great Ocean Road coast more than 25,000 years ago. One can still find evidence of their footprints along the coast today. Midden sites, for example, are quite common. To ensure our precious Indigenous cultural heritage is protected and conserved, the Great Ocean Road Coast Committee has recently started work on a Cultural Heritage Management Plan, which will help us to identify and conserve important cultural sites along the coast. It will also provide a sound foundation for bringing our coast’s cultural heritage to life through education and interpretation. In this way, we hope to honour the Wathaurong people of the past, present and future, and to share their stories with you.
