Merewether Landcare Members

The Baths picnic area in September 2007. The native coastal plant species are now well established and we have removed the shadecloth windbreak. See final photo on the Urban Planning & Design page Doug befriends a water dragon on the headland site, November 2010. Native plant revegetation is bringing native fauna back to the site.

Core Group

These members regularly attend our beach project work sessions:

  1. Jan Bourke
  2. Griff Foley
  3. Frances Ford
  4. Rita Graham
  5. July Hart
  6. Barbara Harvey
  7. Peter Hempenstall
  8. Ken Hullick
  9. Lori Hungerford
  10. Catherine Lee
  11. Margaret Lovell
  12. Chris Marley
  13. Doug Schofield
  14. Barbel Stuhr
  15. Ann Thomas
  16. Mandy Tomlinson
  17. Otto Fischer
  18. Phil Harvey
     

Many of these members have worked on the beach project in a regular and continuing way since it began in January 2004.

Judy, Ann & Andrea on the headland site, early morning, March 2010

Other contributors

The following people have contributed or are still occasionally contributing, to Merewether Landcare through one or more of: the beach project, work in Glenrock and other local reserves, or our Wednesday plant propagation group. 

  • Louise Battersby
  • Jono Bourke
  • Faith Browns
  • Gardner Browne
  • Paul Burley
  • Lorraine Cook
  • George Curry
  • Rinaldo De Vitis
  • Sylvie Evans
  • Peter Field
  • Josie Fraser
  • Katherine Gauci
  • Amanda Gale
  • Greg Giles
  • Tim Hackney
  • James Hart
  • Jane Hunt
  • Peter Jones
  • Mark Johnson
  • Jim Kelly
  • Jiao Li
  • Kirsten Marley
  • Gareth Marley
  • Andrew Pulsford
  • Alex Saddington
  • Elizabeth Schofield
  • Michael Schofield
  • Juanita Schofield
  • Bev Sibthorpe
  • Brian Smith
  • Phillip Stanmore
  • Kathryn Ticehurst
  • Laura Ticehurst
  • Bob van Oostrum
  • Britt van Oostrum
  • Marjan van Oostrum
  • Jane Watt
  • Alison Woolard
  • Tom Woolard

The group at work on the Baths site, April 2010. Despite rain. wind. cold and heat, we have hardly ever missed a Tuesday work session in over seven years. Group members, keen as ever, early in our eigth year, March 2011 Our work is transforming a weed-infested mess into restored native plant habitat. In January 2006 his Port Jackson Fig was the sole native plant in the natural amphitheatre behind Merewether Baths. Now this tree is surrounded by thousands of native plants. And the fig itself is regenerating in the way its species does, by its branches rooting in the ground. A white-faced heron blends with native plants above Merewether Baths, October 2010. The heron and other birds returned with the clearing of Bitou Bush and planting of native species.