Living around the Bay.
We enjoyed a Corroboree on the Beach at Portsea in 2004 when the community was campaigning for Point Nepean to become a National Park.
That was achieved and it is now Point Nepean Community Trust.
It is summer in Melbourne and Point Nepean is hosting a Jazz Picnic at the revitalised Quarantine Station on 19 January 08. Feast on local gourmet produce and relish James Morrison, Wilbur Wilde, Emma Park, Sugarbeats and Wesley College Big Band.
Tickets are available at the Sorrento Athanaeum Cinema or cash sales at gate on the day. [$45 adults and $10 children].
Also on the 19th January a local 12 year old Elyse Coates-McCarthy, will lead her peers in a 1km swim from Mornington Pier to Mills Beach to hilight their love of the Bay and protest against the dredging. Get Involved
So people can make a grand day of it on the Peninsular on Saturday 19th January! Cheer on the kiddies at Mornington then head down to Point Nepean for a Jazz Picnic.
We are in the final stages now of a 5 year community rallying to Save our Bay
International support is strong. There are millions of people around the world who enjoy coming to Melbourne: the world’s ‘Most Livable City’.
Friends of the Earth International have just joined our Campaign and invite you to sign their on-line petition to Federal Environment Minister Mr. Garrett to show your opposition to channel deepening in Port Phillip Bay. Already hundreds of people from our global community have signed up so please forward this request to all your friends wherever they are around the world.
Go to: Friends of the Earth International on-line petition at: http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/port-phillip-bay/
The pics and stories are almost all in. It is fascinating to see the diversity of personal experience of the Vigil on tuesday night. Around the Bay
Thank you to all who responded to the call that went out and rallied family and friends ‘to the beaches’! In between the groups, were so many more who took the opportunity to go quietly to their own favorite places and honour their appreciation for the Bay.
Enjoy summer by the Bay.
Have a lovely peaceful Monday folks!
Hilary