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From: Alison Rock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2003 1:05 PM
Subject:
Saving Point Nepean
E-letter No 5
One National Park for all of Point Nepean
Ring the Bell Rally
25-Metre Range Point Nepean
5 October 2003
2.00pm
On the eve of the closing of tenders for the lease of 90 hectares of
Point Nepean, the Victorian National Parks Association, the National
Trust of Australia (Victoria) and many other groups and individuals will
be gathering at Point Nepean.
We will be ringing bells to celebrate the special natural and cultural
heritage values of Point Nepean: 19th and 20th century heritage
buildings of the Quarantine Station and breathtaking coast and seascapes.
But we will also be ringing bells to send out a distress signal, a
warning of the serious threat to Point Nepean from the proposal to lease
to a developer/operator, the 90 hectares containing the Quarantine
Station and threatened coastal moonah woodland.
Disintegrated management threatens the integrity, fabric and spatial
association of the Quarantine Station buildings, and the present
proposal exempts developers from local and state planning and
environment controls, and avoids the protection afforded by the new
national heritage legislation that comes into force in 2004.
There will be a big bell for all of us to ring, but please bring along
your own as well!
On a day when we are sounding the red alert for Point Nepean, please
wear something red: a scarf, a jumper, a jacket, a hat, a skirt, some
slacks?
On Sunday 5 October please visit Point Nepean, absorb its wonder and
majesty, hear informed speakers, and find out what is proposed and how
your
voice can be added to so many others.
Please bring your friends and family, bring a picnic, bring a bell --
AND WEAR RED!
How to get to the Ring the Bell Rally
To get to the 25-metre Range (Melways Map 156 B2) follow the signs after
the Visitor Centre (Melways Map 156 C2) at the Mornington Peninsula
National Park entrance. The 25-metre range is approximately two
kilometres from the Visitor Centre, with Gunners Cottage car park
another kilometre on. Car parking is also available at the Visitor Centre.
Please Note: Park Open Day
The rally happens to coincide with a Parks Victoria Open Day for the
Point Nepean section of the Mornington Peninsula National Park. This
means that entrance to the park will be free, there will also be no
charge for the trolley transporter to the tip of Point Nepean, and there
will be ranger-led interpretive walks, rockpool rambles, face-painting,
a sausage sizzle and roving entertainers between 10 and 2.00pm.
So why not make a day of it, visit one of Victoria's very special places
and at the same time help the campaign for its protection.
NB: The rally and the Open Day do not include entry on to the
Commonwealth land at the Quarantine Station.
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