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Local organisations
Central Coast Community Environment Network (CEN)
Umbrella environment organisation for Central Coast
Contact: 4349 4756 / Ourimbah Campus

Australian Conservation Foundation
Contact: John Wiggin, PO BOX 547, Woy Woy 2256. Tel: 4323 1843; john.wiggin@acf.ccoast.org
Meet: 10am first Sunday of month (except January) at Parkside Terrace, Kibble Park, Gosford

Bays Progress Association
covers Woy Woy Bay, Phegans Bay and Horsefield Bay
Meet: 3rd Wednesday of month, 7.30pm at Woy Woy Bay Community Hall.
Contact: Helen Baker (contact CEN for details)

Central Coast Greens
Secretary: Scott Rickard; PO Box 4046 Wyongah NSW 2259; centralcoastgreens@hotmail.com

Central Coast Indian Myna Action Group
Trying to preserve native birdlife threatened by Indian Mynas

Gosford Wildlife Conservation Society
Meet 4th Saturday each month 2.00pm at Lutheran Church, West Gosford.
Contact: Marigold Lawrence, PO Box 1741, Gosford 2250 gosford.wildlife@bigpond.com

Killcare Wagstaffe Trust
Contact: Ann Bowe, PO Box 4009, Hardy's Bay 2257
Meet: quarterly at Wagstaffe Hall

Ocean & Coastal Care Initiatives (OCCI)
Marine and coastal environmental issues, particularly local rock platforms. Rock pool rambles and whale watching.
Meet: 2nd Wednesday of month at 7.30pm at CEN Office - Central Coast Campus, Ourimbah
Contact: Jeannie Lawson, PO Box 3163, Umina Beach, 2257. Tel 4341 4291

Woy Woy Peninsula Resource and Landcare Committee
Contact: Tony Whitehead (contact CEN)
Meet: 1st Saturday & Sunday of month

Bushcare
Gosford Council Bushcare program
Contact: Robyn Urquhart; tel: 4325 8195; robyn.urquhart@gosford.nsw.gov.au
or
Geoff Bakewell; tel: 4325 8169; geoff.bakewell@gosford.nsw.gov.au

Peninsula Bushcare Group
Meet 7pm on third Monday of the month at the Woy Woy Environment Centre.
A forum for all bushcare volunteers on the Peninsula.
Contact: Shirley Hotchkiss 4341 9301

Local groups
Contact CEN for contact details of groups if not supplied below.
Blackwall Mountain - 1st Sunday of month at 9am, Blackwall Road. Jill Colwell; 4342 7849
Brisbane Water Secondary College P&C Bushcare - 2nd Sunday & 3rd Saturday of month 9am, Umina campus, Veron Rd, Shirley Hotchkiss 4341 9301
Burrawang Bushcare - 4th Sunday of month, 9am, Nambucca Dr playground next to Burrawang Reserve, Woy Woy. Shirley Hotchkiss 4341 9301.
Ettymalong Creek - 1st & 3rd Sun morning of month; entrance to oval opp. Etta Road, Umina; Sue & Bryan Ellis; 4341 2957
Iluka Lagoon - 2nd Saturday of month at 8.30am. Steve Cummings.
Lobster Beach - 1st Saturday of month 9-11am (not Dec/Jan) at Lobster Beach. PO Box 4105, Wagstaffe, 2257
Melaleuca Wetland Regeneration Group - 2nd & 4th Sat of month; end of Boronia Ave, Woy Woy, summer 8-10am, winter 9-11am; Norah Clarke 4341 3960.
Patonga - every Monday 1.30-4.30pm opposite Eve Williams Oval. Contact: Barbara Jackson.
Pearl Beach Bushcare - Tara Allen, Saturdays 9-11am April-November
Pearl Beach Dunecare - Fay Austin, 2nd Monday of month 9-11am; 4341 7669
Phegans Bay - reserve at end of Raymond Road. Contact John Lovatt.
Wagstaffe Point (Bouddi NP) - Meet 3rd Sat 9am
Woy Woy Peninsula Dune Care Group - 1st Saturday of month 9am cnr Esplanade and Barrenjoey Road, Ocean Beach.

Bushwalking
Brisbane Waters Outdoor Club
Contact: PO Box 845 Gosford 2250; Marilyn Scott, 4389 7246 / info@bwoc.org.au
Meet: first Friday of month 8pm; Girl Guides Hall, Jirrah Avenue (Fagans Park), Point Clare.

National Parks Association of NSW
June Scott, Secretary, PO Box 4174, Bay Village, 2261. Tel: 4332 7378;ccoast@npansw.org.au

Australian Plant Society
Website has some good descriptions of short bushwalks in Brisbane Waters and Bouddi NPs.

EcoVillage
Equilibrium
Group working to create an eco-village on the Central Coast
Contact: Mark Snell. Tel: 4342 5333; mark.snell@equilibrium.org.au

Gardens
Mt Penang Gardens
Off Pacific Highway, Kariong. Tel 4342 0288. www.mpp.nsw.gov.au

Native Plants
Australian Plant Society
Meet: second Friday of month 8pm at Horticulture Research Station, Research Rd, Narara (guest speakers, book library, bushwalk on following Sunday).
Contact: centralcoastgroup@australianplants.org

Wildflower Place
Native plants nursery
453 The Entrance Road, Erina Heights.Tel: 4365 5510

Organic suppliers
Organic Plus 1/1 Bonnal Road, Erina: conomos@tpg.com.au; 02 4365 0978

Photograhy
Art of Nature Nature photography courses, MacMasters Beach. Eric Gunzel
Esther Beaton Pearl Beach-based nature photographer

Riding
Glenworth Valley Horse Riding 69 Cooks Road, Peats Ridge. Tel: 4375 1222

Scuba diving
Gosford Diving Services 310 Trafalgar Avenue, Umina; gosdivserv@kooee.com.au; 02 4342 1855

Brisbane Water Aqualung Club 22 Brisbane Water Drive, Koolewong, NSW 2256; info@bwac.org.au; 02 4328 130

Central Coast Artificial Reef Project Project to build an artificial reef on the Central Coast

Surfing
Surfrider (Central Coast) Chris Tola: 0438 203 964; christola@surfrider.org.au

Wildlife
Australian Wildlife Walkabout Park (formerly Calga Springs Sanctuary)

Wildlife Animal Rescue and Care Society (Wildlife Arc)
Rescue of injured or orphaned native animals.
Contact: PO Box 2308, Gosford 2250. Tel: 4365 1121 (24hr hotline) or 4353 1125
Meet third Saturday of month, Senior Citizens Centre, Albany Street North, Gosford, 1pm.

WIRES (Wildlife Information and Rescue Service)
Rescue and care of native animals.
Contact: PO Box 464, Wyong 2259. Tel: 4323 2326
Meet: 2nd Tuesday of month 7.30pm at Narara Research Station