Helen Symes presents interesting questions — and tips — that may inspire you to improve your fitness level! Helen, a personal trainer, is the island-based Recreation Club Gym Coordinator.

Christo Patty is a psychologist with a wealth of knowledge and experience to help unlock human potential. This article is about our relationships, hidden agendas, and self discovery. Christo lives on the island.

Keith Slack writes about how, in 1878, the Surveyor General’s Department was mandated to leave a minimum buffer of 150 links (30 metres) to the high-water mark in the island’s survey of crown land. This area was opened as an esplanade that is now known as the Emerald Fringe.

Native to tropical America, painted spurge is an environmental weed in Queensland and NSW and it’s found in many sandy areas on Coochiemudlo’s Emerald Fringe.

Asparagus fern can be found all over Coochiemudlo, and in many parts of the Emerald Fringe. It is a dominanting ground cover that completely overwhelms native plants.

Trish Miller is one of our resident artists. Her artistic practice includes off-loom weaving using tiny glass beads. Her work is so beautiful, exquisite!

Besides being a beautiful tree, the Bribie Island Pine has many other virtues as explained in this short article from Bushcare, written by Peter Wear.

Native to Central and South America, Leucaena leucocephala was first planted for fodder in Queensland. Now it grows all over Coochiemudlo but it’s most prolific on the western side — on the Emerald Fringe and around the Community Hall.

Native to Madagascar, mother of millions is a rampant, environmental weed in Queensland and NSW — and throughout the island’s east and north-east shoreline.