MESAC is a voluntary organisation with priceless volunteers who give up hundreds of hours of their time. Volunteers are passionate, highly educated and skilled in so many things. A debt of gratitude is owed every day for their passion to educate, connect and preserve our natural marine environments.
MESAC Winter Solstice Foreshore Ramble | Sunday 20 June 2021 | 10am–11.30am
Join in our first post-COVID lockdown Winter Solstice Walk for 2021:
- Assembly: 10am at McGregor’s Rock
- Talk: by Ray Lewis’ on Sea Country & Megafauna
- Walk: with Professor John Buckeridge at the open cliffs; discussing coastal geology, geomorphology and palaeoecology (providing an insight into what it was like in our coastal waters from 6 million years ago to the present).
- Finish: Ricketts Point Tea House for hot coffee, tea, chocolate, soup & warm fire if you like.
Cost: free to attend
Considerations: run by experts and volunteers. Incidentals like beverages are borne by participant.
Bookings: numbers are limited, online bookings essential through TryBooking
Social Media
Connecting with you via our communication channels.
All our website and social media sites are chock full of local, Australian and international marine science news. Check out our new YouTube Channel!
We have also posted our MESAC & Coastcare Summer By The Sea online events and videos for you to enjoy.
Please make sure you 'Like' and 'Subscribe' to our pages.
Events
We continue to bring the community together, raise awareness about the MESAC project and educate about our beautiful, unique marine environment.
Please refer to our website for future events in 2021 - COVID vaccine rollout and border closures permitting.
Education publications
Please refer to our website for our recent publications including:
We have created this journal with the aim of fostering deeper connections with marine and coastal areas, and the flora and fauna that inhabit it. Many community members have contributed to its pages – artists, photographers, scientists, snorkelers and walkers – all of whom appreciate the wonders of coastal and marine environments.
We hope that using this journal may help to cultivate closer attention to the natural environment, its seasonal changes and complex inter-relationships. Regular observation can encourage love and guardianship of our precious coastal environments that survive, and in some areas thrive, despite the impacts of proximity to urban areas.
This beautiful home-grown journal makes a stunning gift for all occasions. $20 plus postage or free pick up.
Also see our useful and beautifully photographed guides and handbooks. See MESAC website for more details and to order
Connection and support
The Bayside area and surrounding bioregion are significant to the local Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Both the land and the sea hold memories and are alive.
We acknowledge the First People of our nation, whose understanding, connection and care for the land and the waters, and all living creatures, sets an example that we must follow. We pay respects to their elders past and present, especially those of the Kulin nation on whose land and water we live and work, and hope that together we can carry their legacy forward.
MESAC also acknowledges the friendship and support of Fisheries, Parks Victoria, Coastcare, Bayside Council, other marine groups and local community from all around Port Phillip Bay and beyond. We love sharing ideas, experiences, achievements, hopes and dreams.
We look forward to seeing and hearing from you soon. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or comments at all.
Thankyou
We would also love to acknowledge our amazing sponsors:
- Beaumaris Community Bank
- Beaumaris Rotary
- Beaumaris Books
- Coastcare Victoria
- Salvage Films
- Hatchling Studios
- Bayside Beaches Real Estate
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Marine Education Science and Community Inc. (MESAC)
Address: P.O Box 7228, Beaumaris VIC 3193 Australia
Email: MESACoffice@gmail.com
Website: http://mesac.org.au