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Friends of Cahills Scrub
Taking care of Cahills Scrub - Peachester
Contributed by Sandra Poole
Peter, Jeremy, Ted, Sandra, Alwyn, Carolyn and Islay
Did you know that the little community of Peachester has its own land care group? For a small town it sure packs a collective punch.
When my husband John and I moved here from Brisbane in 2016 we felt it straight away.
I wanted to learn more about the surrounding bushland and get to know the locals (people as well as flora and fauna), so I joined FOCS (Friends of Cahill’s Scrub).
Cahill’s Scrub is a reserve that runs from MacDonald Road through to Harold Place following a gully and creek that is filled with amazing plants and animals.
Platypus have been seen in the creek and the scrub abounds with red-necked wallabies and echidnas, and is a highway for a little band of grey kangaroos with a magnificent buck that my son has nicknamed El Patron (don’t mess with him).
Our intrepid and hard-working leader, Ted Prickett, being (a very youthful) 84 years old, decided to finally take a break from his tireless environmental contribution and hand the reins over to me.
Of course I was not all that confident to do so but, under Ted’s very experienced guidance, I am beginning to understand more and more about the history and importance of this reserve.
His wonderful wife Eunice contributes vitally to the group by supplying us with the most delicious savoury muffins I have ever tasted for our mid-morning break!
We are a small band of volunteers who meet on the last Saturday of the month beginning in February and continuing through the cooler months from 9am-12noon.
With the enthusiastic and incredibly knowledgeable assistance of our Sunshine Coast environmental contractor Brendan Stephen we have managed to plant and nurture, so far this year, around 620 young trees to help maintain the wild integrity of this special part of the world.
