As you will know from the NGT blogs throughout 2014, Long Swamp has undergone the first phases of restoration works to regulate the artificial outlet at Nobles Rocks. While the restoration works to date have resulted in isolated increases in water levels immediately upstream of...
In Part 3 of this story, we discovered how the currently accepted spelling of Lake Monibeong came into being in the 1940s. In this fourth and final piece of the tale, we're going to go right back to the beginning again, to see whether any clues...
Last Saturday, I spent a great day at the Birdlife Australia Congress which was held in Portland for the first time since 1957! There was a fantastic local flavour in the middle part of the day, with sequential talks by: Bob Green - looking at the bird...
In the next chapter of this story, we go forward a few years to the mid-1940s. By this time, it seems that more people were making the journey to what (as we discovered in Part 2) had become known as Lake Bung Bung, a period that also corresponds...
We pick up this story again by revisiting a series of newspaper articles that appeared in the Portland Guardian in the 1930s...
When it comes to the names of places, never assume anything: that is what some recent digging has taught me! While Long Swamp is a pretty straightforward and descriptive name that leaves no room for confusion, the same cannot be said for one of the spectacular...
The latest edition of Wetlands Australia magazine has just hit the web, and NGT features include updates on projects at Gooseneck Swamp and Long Swamp. You can read a pdf of Lachlan's article, summarising the first year of waterbird monitoring led by the Hamilton Field Naturalists...
In previous blog (see here), we looked at some of the interesting oral history of Long Swamp and a newspaper article from 1953, when the Glenelg River Angling Club began to take an interest in the Nobles Rocks outlet. Here is the Border Watch article from...
On Saturday the 5th of July, I had the pleasure of attending (and giving a short presentation at) the Coastal Volunteers Forum, hosted by the Nelson Coastcare Group but attended by a range of dedicated volunteers from both sides of the border. The theme of...
On Tuesday the 1st of July, thanks to a group of 11 willing helpers (from NGT and the Glenelg Hopkins CMA) eager to take on the rugged terrain, the second phase of the Long Swamp restoration trial was successfully installed. As reported in a previous blog,...
