Had 15mins to spare waiting for meeting, picked up rubbish

Spent 15mins removing glycine from the pathway near the kids

I had 15min to kill waiting for my friend to arrive for our afternoon catch-up and walk. Cut away the Balloon vine smothering a wattle, and removed Passionfruit vine from another 4 trees including the young brushbox in the centre of the second pic. Council contractors have poisoned along the paths, but many vines remain in the trees ☹️

Big weekend. I watered the 100+ trees we planted on Saturday. Handheld 8L watering can, up and down a 30m 45 degree slope 💪

Loaded up the car with 285 grasses, shrubs and trees for our weekend of planting near Dunoon!!! No room for Chris lol

Did another 30min on the pathway. Halfway done. Can you tell where I got up to in the first pic??

Glycine regrowth removed from the lomandras and Eucalyptus tree. Roots removed, no poison required!! Looks good in the before and after pics below.

Glycine vine is over growing these lomandras and the biobasin opposite. I can sort out the path, but will get council to do some heavy lifting in the basin. We can then maintain 😊

Here’s just one of many trees being smothered and killed along a popular path near the Sunnybank Rugby club. 15min later it has a new lease on life!

This plastic bag was dancing in the wind like a land jellyfish, just needing to be put in the bin, as I made my way to the bus. Now a turtle won’t mistake it as a real jellyfish if it made it to the ocean. You can write stories without outputs and mins spent if it is a once off good gesture, or even if you notice someone else’s great work, or if something needs to be done.

Revisited the biobasin on Miles Platting Road, removed regrowth of glycine vine. The trees are looking happy and healthy. Will return as more vine in the lomandras.

I took my car in for a Service at Joy Motors in Underwood on Friday morning, so had some time to kill. Went to Springvale Park where I spent 45mins removing mostly Monkey Rope vine, with small amounts of passionfruit and Gylcine vine from Casurinas, two eucalypts and a Wattle. Lovely hearing an Eastern whipbird as I worked.

I was in Stones Corner to pick up a music book for my daughter. I remembered there is some great restoration of native trees along the creek. A big shout out to Buranda Bushcare! I counted three nest boxes. In the first photo look for the possum tail hanging out the hollow ❤️😊. I spent 30min picking up rubbish along the banks.

Below the Hinze Dam wall is a lovely park with a huge fig and Hoop pines, called Mottee Court Park. Some passion fruit vine was established in one of the garden beds. Pulled out some 5 vines by the roots. We don’t need poisons!

Went for a lovely morning walk at Hinze dam. Some vine infestations. Removed some glycine vines from the lomandras at the lookout and about 10 seedling vines. Also saw the biggest bee I’ve ever seen! Size of a 50 cent piece. She’s called a Great Carpenter Bee, see the video below 😊🐝

Thought I’d enjoy the sunshine and do some exercise by going for a walk and pick up rubbish along the way. Sadly, such a variety of rubbish.

I revisited three casurina trees I had rescued from vines some 13 months earlier. Mile a minute and Balloon vine were again impacting their health. Vines cut and removed from all 3 trees.