Community Service - Hardwick Bay

Tuesday 5th May 2009

We arrived at the small community town of Hardwicke Bay ready to do our bit to help the environment. We all assembled in the small community centre there and got a talk from one of the local environmentalists about feral plants and how we have to eradicate them. We saw examples of the feral plants and pictures of how they are taking over our beautiful country side. We soon after met one of the young boys who help out, Blake, and were told what our task was going to be.

We walked down to a few gardens, receiving a small speech about why they are there, and how their small community group has improved the area. They had done quite a remarkable job and I was happy to help them out, in making the community a better place.

We came across a block of land which was just dirt at the time, and it had a few workers working on it. this was where we were destined to do our community service and help out with making a new garden for the community. We started by doing some hard labour, shoveling dirt from massive mounds and escorting them by wheelbarrow to the selected destination. As soon as we had moved all of these mounds into the garden, we started to plant some trees and plants. As soon as we had been shown how to properly plant we were on our way to planting a new garden and after a short period of time we had definately made a difference to what was just a block of dirt.

I felt good, knowing I had helped the local community even if it was only in a minor way.