Hands Off Point Peron

📣 🐧 Penguin Fund-raiser this Saturday 30th May Safety Bay Yacht Club 5:30 - 9:30. All Welcome 🐧 ⬇️ 🐧

LESS THAN 2 WEEKS TO GO . GRAB YOUR TIX SOON... Hiya folks! Come and join us again for a wonderful night of community, connection, awesome acoustic music , sharing of food, and to raise some money for our decimated little penguin population at penguin island.
We have a stellar lineup of local talent this time with -

STRUMDRUM - a duo with a mix of acoustic guitar, drums, didgeridoo, and keyboards. A unique high energy , high vibe performance of 60's , 70's covers, powerful original songs, and improvisation to get your foot tapping and your body dancing. Consisting of Al Muir & Dan Warren, two artists with international and national touring, songwriting and producing experience. With soaring vocals, dynamic percussion, and superb guitar work. Songs of love, hope, high vibration, 'spiritual protest' songs. Songs that speak to the heart and soul. And ways of the world. The duality of our human existence. With passion and emotion.
* ASHLEA REALE - digs deep into Western Australia’s blood-soaked past, unearthing stories of murder, mutiny, and the ghosts that still linger on our coast. With a voice that cuts through like desert wind and songs steeped in grit and truth, Ashlea brings a raw and haunting energy to her dark folk storytelling. Her shows feel like a campfire confession meets a true-crime ballad — intimate, eerie, and full of soul. More than a musician, Ashlea Reale is a storyteller for the lost and the curious, giving voice to the forgotten and the damned.

* JUPITER'S TREE - are a Perth based duo with an ethos of "music for the soul". Consisting of Jason Johns also known as JJ Moon on guitars and vocals and Kevin Hume on Bass and Keyboard.
Original music telling stories across the spectrum of experiences and emotions, speaking to the soul, from the soul, for the soul.

This event supports local musicians and helps raise funds for awareness and influencing govt decision making regarding our little penguin population. Approximately 50% of ticket sales , plus raffle funds on the night go to Hands Off Point Peron Community group specifically for pamphlets, social media campaigns, and email campaigns to local politicians. The rest covers hall hire, p.a hire etc, and a relatively small amount for the musicians to cover their costs.
What to bring / expect - A great night out with a friendly, high vibe atmosphere. Children most welcome
Please bring a plate of food to share with everyone. Its wonderful to share delicious food with each other.
Bring any nibblies and drinks you wish to have.
Tables and chairs will be set up with an area at the front for those who want to boogie.
Support workers who want to bring clients will be given free entry.
Doors open 530pm. Please arrive by 6pm if possible to enjoy our first act.
Thank you for your support .
https://events.humanitix.com/acoustic-vibes-by-the-sea-3

DISAPPEARING SEAGRASS 🌱🌊🌱
Why are the seagrass meadows in Cockburn Sound, Shoalwater Bay and Warnbro Sound disappearing?

There are many probable reasons including ocean pollution from industry, waste water disposal from the Pt Peron pipeline, and stormwater runoff from the land; dragging ship and boat anchors tearing up seagrass; ocean storms; sedimentation from dredging and naturally shifting sands; and possibly seagrass diseases.

Warmer ocean waters from climate change, in the form of marine heatwaves and gradual and longer-term ocean warming, also kills seagrass. While higher temperatures can affect the seagrass directly, ecologists from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales have recently identified an indirect impact related to the microbial content of the sediment that the seagrass grows in.

Ocean warming can shape sediment microbial communities in ways that suppress seagrass performance. Higher temperatures favour sulphide-producing bacteria in the sediment and sulphide is toxic to seagrass roots, potentially suppressing seagrass growth and increasing the risk of seagrass death.

It's a clear demonstration that to fully understand the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems, we need to investigate what happens microbially and on the ocean bed, as well as at higher trophic levels.

Warming seas can threaten the hidden relationship that supports seagrass meadows Seagrasses are often overlooked, but they are among the most important coastal habitats on Earth.