During this workshop, you will: 

• Learn how to test water quality and identify waterbugs with John Gooderham, Simon Roberts, and Chris Bobbi
• Learn how to start a Waterwatch group
• Learn how to restore local waterways sensitively
• Learn about Landcare issues in your local catchment
• Meet local likeminded people and Landcare groups
• Get excited about citizen science and what you can do

Before coming to the workshop, please download The Waterbug App (free, Android and ios-Apple) and register. You can download it from Google Play, the App Store, or www.thewaterbugapp.com

Please carpool to this event if you can! 

Workshop Plan:

• Park at Site 2 - Comraich Property, 6150 Channel Hwy, Garden Island Creek
• Make our way to Site 1 - Flat Rock, upstream of Comraich, adjacent to State Forest. A representative from SETAC will acknowledge the country we are on and talk a bit about its significance as a women's area. We will learn to test for water quality and identify waterbugs.
• Make our way to Site 2 - Comraich, adjacent to the Channel Hwy and near the mouth of the Creek. 
• We will be given a walk and talk by Landcare Tasmania CEO Peter Stronach focussing on how to restore riparian areas sensitively.
• We will then have lunch, provided by Mountain River-based restaurant, My Slice of Pie.
• We will again test water quality and identify waterbugs at Site 2, seeing if there are any changes in what we see while we are downstream and why that might be. 
• To finish up the workshop, we will learn how to start and run a Waterwatch Group from Simon Roberts.