Sunset at the Coorong

Photograph by Malcolm Haines

Happy New Year's Eve to all our regular visitors both domestically and internationally. The CBRP group want to wish you all a safe and peaceful New Year.

To our prospective and valued guest we hope that you will join us on the coming up workshop which is the 'Caring for Country: Restoring Land and Cultural Understanding - an ecological restoration tour at the Coorong on the 15 to 18th of January 2009.

Message from Jelina

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Same thing but from gmail. Gmail took close to 10 minutes to process the image and post it. The only one I cant get working yet is hotmail. This means we can post through mobile phones on most mobile platforms. Give it a couple of days and I'll try an MMS to see if we can capture things live, unless anyone else wants to try.

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Test 3: Second try at attached image. It looks like you can upload images to the post as attachments, but not include them in the body of the email. Not included in this blog (in order to save space) are the attempts Ive had with the image inserted into the email. These don't work. We need to attach the image.

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Thanks Jelina

Hi all,

I think all involved in the CBRP project should take collective moment to thank Jelina for all her effort in getting this blog up and running. While I was called upon for some of the technical bits, it was at Jelina's prompting and part of her overall vision.

Now we have a beautiful site with which to report our activities, hopes and visions for the Coorong. More than that, Jelina has worked intensley in promoting the blog, getting our project recognised by SA Tourism, and spreading brochures as a farmer spreeds his seeds. Hopefully many will germinate.

Jelina has also taken the project onto the world stage, just take a look at the flag counter to see how many visitors we have had and from which countries. The range is impressive. If you want more details, just double click on the flag counter.

So, join me as I say "thanks Jelina, where would we be without you!"

valued guest and visitors

Hi,
We want to express our gratitude to our valued guests and visitors for continually visiting our blog, we hope that the New Year 2009 will bring world peace, good health, abundance and maybe more rains for Australia. We want to thank especially for our visitors from different countries, we hope that you all have a safe and nonviolent new year.

To our prospective guests for the coming up event 'Caring for Country: Restoring Land Cultural Understanding - an ecological restoration tour at the Coorong', we are looking forward seeing you at the Coorong.

On behalf of CBRP we wish you all a safe and a peaceful New Year 2009.


Photograph by Denise Noack

Message from Jelina

See article by Paton www.advertiser.com.au Dec 23, 2008 PAGE 22

I spent the solstice (last Sunday) watching the pumps at Narrung, frantically pumping water from Lake Alexandrina into Lake Albert. It looked like old bile, a foamy brown, sort of like trying to resuscitate a corpse. It looks like money is being spent and equipment is being used, but it is only for appearances and for money. Lack of an environmental ethic is the cause of the problem.

If it ever rains again, we should have a plan to store all of the freshwater that is owed to the Coorong, which is 2000 GL, then we are only allowed to use the excess OVER and ABOVE the environmental water. Only if we respect the lakes ecosystem, will we be allowed to live and profit on this land. That is the law the local Traditional people followed, from thousands of years of experience.


Photograph by Joan Gibbs

valued guest

Hi,
May I remind everybody that it is getting closer to the 5th January 2009 where you have to make a payment or make the final payment for the 'Caring for Country: Restoring Land and Cultural Understanding - eco restoration tour of the Coorong.

We encourage our valued guest to inform us as soon as possible so that we can determine of how many are attending as our guest. Also, it will give us time to arrange the transport and prepared all the necessary requirements ready for the event.

Please email us at Joan Gibbs or Jelina Haines or Steven Gemmell

Please don't hesitate to contact us, we are here to answer all your queries. Thank you.



Macro image of early dewdrop by Jelina Haines.

Be prepared to bring your camera, because the Coorong Landscape offers many surprises for those who loves photography. As seen on the image I love macro photography as it gives me an opportunity to be up close and personal with the object . When you are close to the subject,it gives you that feeling of connection and a sense of place.

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Peace, malx

Info night

Hi all,

Last night had a small turn out of volunteers and guests. Those who attended were well looked after with a great presentation by Jelina and an good supply of food. If you're interested but couldn't make it, there's a PDF file of the presentation along with the brochure in the 'useful links' section on the right side bar.

Though Teeluk seems to be taking many people's attention, we still need volunteers at the lodge, especially to help out paying guests. If you are still interested of volunteering could you please notify Joan directly.

peace

Info Night

Hi,
May I remind you that the info night is tomorrow (12/12/08) at 6:30 pm, P2-04, P Building, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus. In case, you cannot attend the info night, you can download a PDF file under the 'Useful Links'

If you want further information, please don't hesitate to email CBRP at coorongbrp@gmail.com

Birds at Hacks

PDF

Hi

Converted the powerpoint file for the presentation describing the workshop to a pdf file and added a link to it . It's under 'useful links. Just follow the link and when the filecube page opens, down the bottom there is a 'download file' link. Use this.

I'm just using filecube as a temporary parking space for our files as it is free and needs no signup. Once we get our website underway, they will all be shifted to there.

changes

Photograph by Malcolm Haines

Hi
changed background of comments so that users can see the border between posts, it wasn't clear where one started and the other finished.

Added an 'email us' link at button of right sidebars.If users are using their PC email client, this will open an email with our address and 'Question about the project' in the subject line. The email will include any signatures etc they have as default. This doesn't work from web based email clients.

Extended the Visitors so it matches up with other sidebars, changed colour too to match. There is space for 4 columns of flags now.

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posting by email

Hi,

you can post your posts from an email client by using the email address that you define for yourselves under 'the 'settings' tab and choose email. You will be presented with a near complete email address that you only have to fill the middle bit in with what you want. This will give an email address as: log in emailname. yourchoice@blogger.com

The subject of the email will become the title of the post. Its fast, just a minute or so and you're posted. This means that you can add to the blog from any email source, blackberry, pda, laptop etc etc without needing to open and log in to the blog page.

Makes life easy, hey?

Peace

email posts

Photograph by Malcolm Haines

Hi,
you can post your posts from an email client by using the email address that you define for yourselves under

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Hi,

 

Just testing the email  posting feature. Im sending this from outlook. It should come up as a post without a title, unless the subject line becomes the title.

 

0logic

 

peace,

 

Malcolm

 

'There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't'.

 

 

Maps and changes

Photograph by Malcolm Haines

Hi all,

today I added the first of our Picasa web albums directly to the side bar. The first set is an ongoing one, showing scenery and activities by the volunteers and visitors. The second set is a temporary one of the salt pans around Henry's Island, this set will be changed regularly.

Even with the neglect of the government and the greed of irrigators upstream, this wetlands area can still put on a show of beauty.

Also, Ive edited the HTML and changed the background colors of the comments below the posts to the same as the background of the posts. Personally, I think this looks a little better than contrasting colours.

I have put the link to a Google Earth file that will show key points from the start of the Freeway through to Hacks Point. I've also added another a kml file that locates the pictures from the slideshow onto Google Earth. Just click the link, then at the bottom of the opened page and select 'download file'. I've only temporarily housed the files on a free site. When we get our website running, they will be on there.

peace

0logic

Coorong Biodiversity Restoration Project (CBRP)

Henry's Island

Photograph by Malcolm Haines

ABOUT THE RESTORATION PROJECT (CBRP)
… jointly administered and operated by the Coorong Wilderness Lodge (CWL) and the University of South Australia (UNISA) and team of volunteers.

The Coorong Biodiversity Restoration Project is a research-based land restoration program. The purpose of this program is to demonstrate the application of ecological principles and strategies to integrate scientific and cultural land restoration approaches, using examples of:

*Research on local ecosystems with students, lecturers and visiting
experts, through a partnership with traditional land owners

*Cultural knowledge by the local custodian the Ngarrindjeri people,

*Enhancing natural regeneration with the assistance of the local birds(emu Dromaius novaehollandiae) and other fauna,

*Designing habitats for threatened species and sustainable ecosystems orange-bellied
parrot, Neophema chrysogaster, southern emu-wren, Stipiturus malachurus (race intermedius , sand goanna, Varanus gouldii/rosenbergi)

*Planting and monitoring of a mix of local species on extensively degraded land

coorong slides

Hello again,
I manage to embed the image of the movie slides just click the image and it will take you Picassa website.

movie slides

Hi everybody,
I just uploaded a movie slides on Picassa website. Here's the link:
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/lh/photo/fQN3ckjX-TIp3HRqGKg6Vg?authkey=ce6XWlxp3Ow

Cheers,
Jelina

You Tube search engine

Hi,
I added the YouTube search engine, in this section you can search climate change, carbon credit and millions of topics that are related to your study.
Cheers, jelina

first test post

This is the first test of the blogs