Warm welcome and a wonderful few days with small community located in the valley along Lake Cethana in north-west Tasmania.
It’s been a fantastic start to the year, with landscape planners, Mitch Lennon and Brooke Cunningham heading to Lorinna, Tasmania recently to deliver a two- day bootcamp workshop. They received a genuinely warm welcome and had a wonderful few days with this small community located the valley along Lake Cethana in north-west Tasmania.
The Mulloon bootcamp was part of a bigger picture of landscape resilience and preparedness for the Lorrina community, incorporating a catchment approach to water and fire management across a forested catchment with increasingly changing rainfall patterns. The underlying geology of basalt rock shelves and limestone karsts, combined with steep topography added complexity to the hydrological equation across the landscape.
It was a fun filled couple of days, with a relaxed atmosphere dappled with laughter and gentle support as neighbours came together to share, learn, collaborate and support each other. Not to mention the homecooked catering which I’d argue was some of the best in Tassie!
The notorious tassie weather played along, giving us ample opportunity to spend most of the time outside, with everyone enjoying digging in and getting their hands dirty. There were many incredible questions, invoking in-depth discussion, as we dove into the specifics of landscape processes, and how water moves across and within the valley.
The evenings were spent enjoying more of the incredible community hospitality with neighbours, kids and dogs coming together to share food, stories and swims with picnics by the lake. Thank you, Lorrina Landcare, for making this event happen, and the warm hospitality you extended to Mitch and Brooke.
This workshop was hosted by Lorrina Landcare.
Right – Demonstration and discussion of how water moves in the landscape.
Lorrina Landcare - discussion on causes of erosion, home grown produce and learning to survey the land.
