Things have continued to grow and change in the forest over the period of shutdown.  It has been the Noongar season of Djeran, and during the holidays, after a heavy downpour, the creek (belatedly) began to flow again, as it always does during this season.  Our Fungi friends, while less abundant than previous years, have been popping up in all their variety and colours throughout the forest.

The shutdown has also been a great opportunity to focus our attention on caretaking for the forest environment and upgrading our bush facilities.  Kristi (with the assistance of her two ‘big boys’, Lachy and Chris) has rebuilt our Bush Kindy/School shelter to make it more durable during the wet weather to come, and has also prepared the Earth Station for the same.  Before the creek started flowing, we did lots of ‘wood weaving’ of some of the eroded banks to give them extra protection from the wild flowing waters of wintertime, and also lots of weeding over the holidays of unwelcome invaders like Umbrella Rushes and Asparagus Fern.

Please note that the Bush School programme has been put on hold for the first three weeks of Term 2 while we operate with a rotational roster for teachers.  Bruce has been working in Karri Kindergarten with Denise, as well as relieving Justin in the Bush Craft programme.  The recommencement of Bush School will be reviewed in Week 3 along with the other arrangements currently in place.