by Jeanette | May 17, 2018 | Accommodation
Turn off South Coast Highway. Camp sites, single rooms, BBQs, showers, laundry, campers kitchen, self contained cabins, backpackers unit. Tel: (08) 98 381 050, Email: clare@ravensthorpecp.com.au, Green Haven Tourist Park...
by Jeanette | Apr 9, 2018 | Environment, General
Dieback (Phytophthora dieback) is a disease that presents a very real threat to our native species. A fungus that exists in mud and soil, it affects more than 40 per cent of native plant species and has the ability to forever alter some of our bushland by killing off...
by Jeanette | Apr 9, 2018 | Herbarium
The West Australian Herbarium initiated a Regional Herbaria Programme in 1997, and the Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show Committee were invited to participate. It set out with the lofty aim of collecting every flowering plant in the Shire of Ravensthorpe. As the shire...
by Jeanette | Apr 5, 2018 | Environment
Dr Gillian Craig is a botanist living on a farm near Ravensthorpe. She wrote the following in 2010: A timeline 3000 million years ago – volcanic activity around Ravensthorpe caused lava to flow across the surface to form black basalt. This has weathered to develop...
by Jeanette | Apr 5, 2018 | Environment
Andy Chapman is a zoologist living on the edge of the Fitzgerald River National Park, near Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. The following text is a copy of a brief address, one of several, given at the official opening of Julia Bell’s Eremia Camel Treks on 20 April 2008....
