Free Family Discovery Morning

Maintaining plant diversity in our coastal reserves, both onshore and offshore, depends on the presence of pollinators and the success of the pollination process. While the role of insects and birds is well known by most people, pollination by wind and water is often overlooked but is equally important in ensuring a rich biodiversity.

Family Discovery Day is a small community event that celebrates the diversity and pollinators for the Iluka Foreshore, featuring displays, talks, walks and a workshop aimed at increasing the public’s knowledge of pollinators and all four types of pollination.

Date: Sunday, 16 November

Time: 8.30am – 12.00pm

Location: Iluka Foreshore Park, Iluka

Tickets: Free. Registrations strongly encouraged.

Please note: This is a small community event. There is very limited parking available, please consider travelling via foot, bicycle or public transport.

What's on?

Nature walk and talks

8:30am -9:30am: BirdlifeWA will lead a walk pointing out birds that are essential for pollinating some coastal plant species.
10:30am - 11:30am: David Knowles from Spineless Wonders will guide a walk looking for insect pollinators- the event coincides with the peak period of the flowering of the Chenille honeymyrtle.
Time TBA: Friends of North Ocean Reef - Iluka Foreshore's (FONORIF), Don Poynton will lead a walk looking at plants that rely on wind pollination or whose pollination takes place underwater.

Angela Rossen: Use your digital phone and the iScopes to examine some of the biodiversity found in the sea at Iluka and will talk about seagrasses that rely on water for pollination.

Catherine Baudains: Learn how to construct an insect hotel to take home. Please note, there are limited sets available.

Adopt A Beach: Discover some of wonderful and curious things that wash ashore.

Read and Relax Corner: Parents can relax on a rug while their toddlers skim through picture books and play with soft toys.

Native food tasting: Taste food made from native plants found in the area and find out what pollinators were involved in producing the ingredients

This event is funded by Coastwest and delivered by Friends of North Ocean Reef and Iluka Foreshore and Perth NRM's Adopt A Beach.