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...]
Saltmarsh rescue
Port expansion means saltmarsh vegetation, possibly remnant, on Port land has to be removed and the Friends and the St Kilda Indigenous Nursery Cooperative inspected it end May, and will rescue some for propagation and relocation in Westgate Park's saltmarsh and other areas. … [Read More...]
Fungi’s back
After a very dry 6 months, fruiting bodies of fungi were slower to appear than last year, however rains in late May/early June have brought back many of the 50 or so species so far recorded in the Park. Featured here is what we understand to be Tubaria furfuracea which can be seen … [Read more]
Our pink lake
As far as we know, our salt lake went pink in late 2012 because of the interaction of a harmless, single cell green alga – Dunaliella salina and an also harmless halobacterium – Halobacteria cutirubrum together with higher than usual salt levels, temperatures and … [Read More...]