Carla, Primary School Teacher & Fossil Hunter
Carla has always been an avid fossil hunter. Fossicking in the Bayside area is how she connects with the Bay.
Whenever Carla has any spare time, she likes to search the Bayside area for fossils. That connection to and time in nature is directly linked to her personal wellbeing, she explains. It’s Carla’s way to wind down from a stressful job. Carla says ‘if I haven’t gone fossil hunting for a while, I feel like something is missing’. ‘When I find a fossil, it’s pure joy’ she says. ‘It brings me something else that nothing else in my life does’.
Why are Carla’s values important?
All of our personal values depend on specific ecosystem features. And these values have a huge impact on our lives, and therefore our economy. Yet they’ve never been measured.
As we gather more information about the ways our values individually connect with the Bay’s landscapes, we will quickly work out where the greatest pathways lie. This will enable our community to identify where those values are most important, the threats to those values, and what we can do about it.
How do you connect with the Bay? We invite you to join one of our workshops to share your insights.
To make the events as accessible as possible for you, we’re running 1-hour online sessions. These will be in the evenings from 6:30PM on the 6, 7 and 11 May. Sign up links for those are here:
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1-hour evening workshops online
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About the workshops
Restore the Bay is an independent project entirely conceived and run by, and for, the community’s benefit. We have assembled ourselves to facilitate outcomes and actions on behalf of the Bayside community.
The workshops will be strictly one hour long in duration and led by Anissa Lawrence. Anissa is internationally recognised for her experience in setting up community-led programs for sustainable development. You can read about Anissa’s experience and our team, here.
The workshops will be light and enjoyable. We find people who participate leave with a sense of greater confidence and a positive understanding of how we can make a difference, without creating more time and anxiety.
There will be no talkfest about problems. What we want to hear from you, is your knowledge about where the most important assets are, that relate to your experience on the Bay, and how this benefits your lifestyle and livelihood.
From this, we can then build the tool that will enable you to see your values represented in the Bay’s overall system. This is the first and most important step towards community-management of our coast and seas.