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Federation get-together, this November 
Louise Brooker, NE Field Nats 
We will hold the get-together at the Field Study Centre at Mt. Cameron on 13, 14, & 15 Nov. There is 
25 km^ of euealypt and sheoak woodland, wet selerophyll gullies and patehes of heath-land, with a 
diverse flora and speetaeular mountain seenery. 
The eentre has two bunk rooms aeeommodating 16 and 14, and spaee for eamping. There is hot water 
and a well equipped kitehen with fridge. The eost is $20/person/night. 
Owing to its isolation, we are not able to eater for Saturday night’s meal, but feel we eould have a great 
meal if field natters bring their own meat to eook on a barbeque, and maybe something (eg. a salad) to 
put on the eommunal table. NE Field Nats will provide desert. 
I'm not sure what the speeial foeus of the weekend will be, but we eertainly have engaged members of 
our elub who know the area intimately and have been involved with the eentre sinee its ineeption. 
I will have more information at the beginning of Oetober. 
Easter camp, Koonya 10~12 Apr 2009 
Report by Amanda Thomson 
This year Easter eamp was attended by a party of 21, ineluding a large eontingent of ehildren. We met 
at the Dunalley eanal and stopped further on at Dunalley Beaeh to fossiek on the foreshore. The narrow 
dune streteh was abundant in finds ineluding wombat seats and a Tittle Blaek Cormorant skull. The 
foreshore was full of erabs, shells, bamaeles, ehitons and a Shaw’s eowfish. We proeeeded to Sommers 
Bay with pieturesque sand patterns and eloud refleetions, finding Pebble erabs, a jewel beetle and more. 
Two yellow-tailed blaek eoekatoos were observed feeding on a flowing Banksia. We ended the day at 
Koonya, the university Field Station on the Tasman Peninsula. 
Young Harry Driessen had a rude start to the next 
day when he was stung on the bottom by a seorpion 
that had elimbed into his underpants that he had left 
on the floor overnight. Apart from the initial shoek 
he was none the worse for the experienee. Saturday 
was spent elimbing Clark Cliffs. We did the eireular 
walk aseending the longer more gradual route up 
through eloud forest and deseending steeply through 
the rainforest. The Field Naturalists extended the 3 
hour walk to a 6 hour walk! We enjoyed luneh on a 
roeky outerop overlooking the Musk Forest. Robyn 
Gates showed her skills as a skink whisperer and had 
several Tasmanian Tree Skinks feeding out of her hand. A number of seats were eolleeted both for 
examination and with the intention of setting up an identifieation box. Observations ineluded fungi, 
mosses, liehens, a Summer Greenhood orehid and other plants as well as birds, snail and other 
invertebrates. 
Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club BULLETIN 335 Jul 2009 p2 
