For World Parks Week During the time of isolation, parks have become even more important for physical and mental wellbeing. Homage to Lagoon Reserve Lagoon Reserve is a 2.5 ha park reclaimed from the former Sandridge Lagoon in Port Melbourne. The Reserve is fringed on all sides with native …
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Family tree
In November 1839, one hundred and eighty years ago, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet, his wife Caroline and their nine children arrived in Hobsons Bay on board the William Metcalfe. Rather than passing through as so many others did, they settled on what was then known only as 'The Beach'. Over …
The olive harvest
They arrive at about 8 am - swirling, screeching flocks of little corellas. There's such a carry on that curious children come to their front doors to see what's going on. Corellas in an olive tree There are so many birds that they weigh down the already heavily laden olive trees on the …
Stewardship
It rained. At last. It had seemed fruitless to invite people to the annual community planting day at Lagoon Reserve, even though the mulch had been spread in readiness and the date arranged. But it's about keeping the faith, says Alice, who has coordinated the annual planting day at Lagoon …
The First Quarter 2019
State of play in Fishermans Bend Montague For the first time since observing Montague on Port Places, businesses are moving in to the area, rather than out. Telleish Hair Studio, (followed by 25.4k people on instagram), has created an elegant two level salon in the long untenanted ground …
Palm trees in Port
Improving the Port Melbourne foreshore has been an enduring preoccupation of commentators, councillors and observers of the Port Melbourne scene for nearly a hundred years. The Town Planning Commission's report of 1929 described Port Melbourne as a drab and dreary entry to Melbourne. In the …