Lower Mary River Landcare Group

31/10/2026

🐢🌊 IT'S TURTLE TIME – NESTING SEASON 2026–2027! 💚

November 1 is here, and that means one thing for our Fraser Coast turtle team... TURTLE NESTING SEASON!

The equipment is being prepared, our monitoring teams are getting organised, and the excitement is building as we wait for that first set of turtle tracks in the sand!

Over the coming weeks, you'll see our team out and about along our beautiful Fraser Coast beaches, preparing monitoring sites, installing research equipment and keeping a watchful eye out for our first nesting mum.

And this is where YOU come in!

Whether you're an early morning beach walker, a local resident or simply someone who loves our marine turtles, you can help make a difference this nesting season.

We'll be sharing updates, answering questions, hosting beach walks and talks, and giving you a glimpse into the fascinating world of marine turtle nesting and conservation.

🐢 Will we see our first tracks this week?

🐢 Which beach will welcome our first nesting mum?

🐢 And what will this season have in store?

We don't know yet, but we can't wait to find out!

Follow along, share our posts and join us for another exciting turtle nesting season on the Fraser Coast!

31/10/2026

Lesley Bradley is coming to speak about Turtle nesting on Serenia Beach, Burrum Heads Monday 2nd November at 9:00am in the picnic shelter on Barramundi Drive. All members of the public are welcome to come along and learn about these ancient animals and their nesting. Please bring along a pen and notepad.

31/10/2026

Its nearly time

🐢 The Waiting Begins!1 November 2026 | Fraser Coast Turtle Nesting SeasonIt's officially turtle time on the Fraser Coast, and we couldn't be more excited!Our marine turtle monitoring team is ready for another nesting season, and now the waiting begins for that first unmistakable set of turtle tra...

31/10/2026

Nesting season is just around the corner and we are working to update how we keep you up to date across multiple platforms so our blog on our website is being developed to do live updates and we will have a running numbers section on there.

This year we are super excited as we are taking our research into sand temperatures and nest activity temperatures to a whole new playing field, which we will keep you up to date on regularly when we are setting it out.

So stay tuned and watch this space...

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09/09/2026

Its not always glamorous but definitely livin the dream when you get to see some of natures amazing creations oh and the most gorgeous sunsets :)

05/09/2026

What an amazing photo

Broome-based drone photographer Matt Deakin has won the Australian Georgraphic Nature Photographer of the Year with 'Ethereal Encounter'.

The photo depicts a critically endangered green sawfish swimming with a green turtle in waters off a remote part of the Pilbara coast between Broome and Port Hedland.

Deakin said he spends around half the year with his camera and drone looking for marine life, and attributes the result to consistency.

"I was just flying the drone around looking for turtles and stingrays and this sawfish just presented itself in the shallow water," he said.

When he received his drone back on only 3%, he was shocked at the result.

"I was so excited with what I’d seen and I ran over to my partner….I was almost ecstatic and lost for words."

The competition attracted more than 2,100 entries from 501 photographers in 17 countries.

"It feels like a heroic image for the region," he said.

Congratulations Matt!

📸 Matt Deakin

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05/09/2026

We are in the final stages of preparing our website and background checks for the season, next step is Lesley will be on the beaches from Gatakers , Esa and the beach where the Boyle Martin Memorial is during October and November doing walk and talks.

If you would like to know more about spotting tracks when out on your morning walk then if you see Lesley in her yellow turtle conservation vest stop and have a chat she has some information on what the process is.

The success of every nest season depends on the help of the public and the community participation in monitoring the beaches and the nests....

04/09/2026

Steve like a lot of amazing people did a lot for conservation in the turtle world we wouldn't know as much as we do about marine turtles without some of the amazing research done before our time.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Australian conservationist Steve Irwin’s death. Steve’s life passion was protecting Australia’s wildlife and places like the Great Barrier Reef, and his greatest legacy was his incredible ability to make people fall in love with that wildlife.

Steve was larger than life, but the message underneath all that energy was very simple: love wildlife, respect wildlife and do everything you can to protect it. At the Australian Marine Conservation Society we are doing everything we can to honour that message by working every day to protect our oceans and wildlife and that’s something everyone can be a part of.

If Steve taught us anything, it's that one person can make a difference. But when thousands of people come together we can create really big change.

You can take action for our marine environment today, and honour Steve Irwin's memory! Visit marineconservation.org.au/ to use your voice to protect Australia’s unique marine wildlife.