Friends of Grampians Gariwerd in Halls Gap, Victoria | Education

Friends of Grampians Gariwerd

Locality: Halls Gap, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5361 4000

Address: 255-275 Grampians Road 3550 Halls Gap, VIC, Australia

Website: http://friendsofgrampiansgariwerd.org.au

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25.01.2022 April 8: Margo acts as official observer at Nature Play Day at Brambuk. Such a good morning, and congratulations to our staff and to Caitlin from VNPA.

24.01.2022 Something for the kids: Friday and Saturday. Friends of Gariwerd Grampians are assisting Parks with a Junior Ranger activity. Its called Parks Bioblitz. Take a photo of something interesting in the park, send it to inaturalist.org to help with recording whats out there. FOGG members will be at Brambuk from 9.30 both days to help you get started, or if you want help identifying what youve seen. What secrets have you found as you walked to Venus baths?

23.01.2022 weve neglected this page for a while, but here are some photos from recent activities. Daryl Panther taught us so much about deer in the National Park

21.01.2022 We are a volunteer-based organisation looking to involve and educate the younger generations who live within and around the edges of the Grampians National Park, including but not restricted to Halls Gap, Dunkeld, Moyston, Willaura, Pomonal, Cavendish and Laharum. Join us for a day out in the park at one of our upcoming activities!

20.01.2022 A very wet day, but fascinating flowers.

19.01.2022 Recently Artist John Kellett contacted our Ranger in charge Dave wanting to donate a large set of limited edition prints to support work in the Park and Dave suggested giving them to us. We are very grateful, but as we have limited opportunity to display them we are also going to share them with the Walking Track Support Group who can sell them more easily at stalls and working bees . FOGGs will keep some to sell and have as speaker gifts. If you would like to buy one at a bargain price of $80 please contact us. More details will follow.

18.01.2022 Dates for the next couple of months. Details to follow. Birdwatching at Djilgu Saturday 18th Of August, 11 am Meet at , 162 Aughey Rd. Wartook Bring picnic food to share with our hosts.... Bill and Hennie Neve, long term FOGG members, will soon be leaving the district. This is our last chance to share their bird Hide home and expertise on local birds. We will wander the property then adjourn into the house for a shared lunch and a chance to stare out the picture windows and watch the birdlife go by as we swap stories and chat about the amazing life they have had, devoted to watching Australias bird species. Contact Rodney Thompson 03)53 836 305 [email protected] Sept 23: Excursion to Mt Dryden. 10 am Meet at the junction of the western highway and the Glenorchy-Ledcourt rd (Mt Drummond quarry turnoff), or for those members coming from the south, at the entrance to the property at about 10.20 am. Mt Dryden is geologically most interesting, as well as having a great view looking towards the Grampians proper. It is on private property so RSVPing to Bill is most important. Members of the Horsham lapidary club will also be joining us. Bill Gardner 0438838288 [email protected] Sunday October 21st at 10.00 am, meeting at Boroka Lookout Repeat of last years wildflower walk and drive, this time joined by the Hamilton Field Naturalists Group. Contact: Rodney

17.01.2022 Geology day this Saturday. Talk by Dr Ross Cayley at 11 am at Brambuk, then an excursion to Mt William and more. Register with Wendy on 0429932065.

17.01.2022 Northern Grampians area, burnt in February 2014.

16.01.2022 There is more information about our activities on our website: http://friendsofgrampiansgariwerd.org.au/

15.01.2022 April 9: Rock Art Wander. Under the guidance of ben gunn, and with permission from the indigenous community, we visited two shelters in the Victoria range. We learnt so much and also assisted in accurately measuring the dimensions of the recently discovered site.

15.01.2022 FRIENDS OF GRAMPIANS-GARIWERD GEOLOGY EXCURSION 14 May FOGGS were very happy to see a good turnout of members and interested others. We had Dr Ross Cayley present us with a rapid tour through millions of years and from the Grampians to Antarctica through slides, maps, photos, diagrams and analogies. The Grampians like a wrecked warehouse, or like a stack of playing cards reshuffled. The earth like a pan of simmering soup. We then went out to look at the real world. A magnif...icent day to picnic on Mt William summit, look across to the Ararat hills in one direction, and the Serra Range in the other. I dont remember seeing the air so clear before. We examined a cast of a large worm hole deposited when the summit rocks were a muddy beach, and stopped on the way down the mountain to look at an ancient landslide, and examples of mudstone. Then some of us continued round to Silverband Falls road to have a look at faults in the rocks there. An excellent if mentally exhausting day. See more

15.01.2022 we've neglected this page for a while, but here are some photos from recent activities. Daryl Panther taught us so much about deer in the National Park

13.01.2022 Artist Statement: "I first visited the Grampians about 1970 and in 1973 I was fortunate to acquire a property near the Wannon River in the southern area. I started drawing impressions of the Grampians in the late 1980s after exploring the mountains and getting to know the flora and wonderful land forms. The current style of my ink and pastel drawings dates from 2005 to 2015 and includes flowers, stylized mountains and cliffs, lichen patterns etc. John Kellett Just 2 of Johns works as a sample.

12.01.2022 The sunset from Mt. William after our last event for 2015

11.01.2022 remote camera shots May 2016

11.01.2022 whoops. Here are the photos.

10.01.2022 This Sunday: Wildflower Drive with Hamilton Field Nats. Meet at Boroka LO at 10 am then drive slowly alomg Mt difficult range. Inquiries Bill 0438 838 288.

09.01.2022 Such a long time since any of us put anything up here! lets start with the October 2017 visit to Mt, Difficult.

08.01.2022 A bit late, but here is a photo of our AGM back in October. A great place for it.

08.01.2022 Just two of us this time.

07.01.2022 Next activity is Saturday August 13, We plan to celebrate this lovely wet weather with a Victoria valley excursion. Well visit a waterfall, a swamp and the red gum forest where well also do some minor maintenance of the track. For more info, phone Margo on 0429 201 139.

06.01.2022 Sallow wattle talk and our cleanup day. There is more information about our activities on our website: http://friendsofgrampiansgariwerd.org.au/

05.01.2022 Such a long time since any of us put anything up here! let's start with the October 2017 visit to Mt, Difficult.

05.01.2022 Still catching up last year's activities. February Neil showed us slides of local birds then took us for a walk behind Brambuk to see quite a few of them. This photographer took people shots not bird ones. Photos in an album I hope.

05.01.2022 AUTUMN NEWSLETTER The Autumn season Gwangal morann (late March to mid June) is depicted by insects, pink heath. This season incorporates the following: Cool mornings and warm, still days. Red sunrises and golden evenings.... Honeyeaters and wrens searching for moths and insects. Birds forming flocks and migrating north. Skinks and tortoises hibernating. Eels heading to sea for breeding. Possums beginning to breed. Flowering of Manna gums and candlebarks. Red and white fly agaric fungi. Flowering of Banksias and Heath. (Thanks to Brambuk ) See more

03.01.2022 One more Geology day photo. Ross with slide show. Many thanks for all the work he put into this day.

02.01.2022 Still catching up last years activities. February Neil showed us slides of local birds then took us for a walk behind Brambuk to see quite a few of them. This photographer took people shots not bird ones. Photos in an album I hope.

02.01.2022 A walk from Zumsteins to McKenzie Falls with a stop at Fish Falls.

02.01.2022 Only a month late! Thought we had this up already. March 5 combining with other groups to clean up the park. Our area was Reeds Lookout and the Balconies. We picked up rubbish and demolished intrusive cairns. The little dragon lizard shows how disturbing the rocks destroys their homes.