Friends of Westgate Park
Friends of Westgate Park - transforming the Park into a beautiful, diverse bushland setting for locally indigenous species.
Welcome to our website!
We hope you enjoy the sights and sounds of Westgate Park and urge you to visit this truly unique environmental gem to explore it first hand. See you there! … [Read More...]
Park Land Grab (2)
The Victorian Environment Minister refused permission to locate Melbourne Water's odour reducing plant in the Park and it will now be on adjacent Port of Melbourne land. However there is a new threat. The Webb Dock expansion proposal would take ~1.2 hectares off the … [Read More...]
Thanks Dwayne!
You may wonder why Westgate Park usually has very little litter, despite Parks Victoria's take home policy on rubbish. The answer is primarily Dwayne who assiduously picks up the stuff dropped or blown into the Park - recently many bags full. An emerging problem for us is … [Read more]
Fungi
Autumn and winter is a great time to see fungus at the Park, especially after rain. We have just started photographing and identifying species and already found a surprisingly diverse number. A few are toxic, many transient and some very beautiful. Please go to our Fungi pages to … [Read More...]