Koo Wee Rup Swamp History

This blog is about the history of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and surrounding areas, including Garfield, and Western Port as well as some of my family history. It's my own original research and writing and if you live in the area you may have read some of the stories before in the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society newsletter or the Koo Wee Rup township newsletter, The Blackfish, or the Garfield township newsletter, The Spectator. Heather Arnold.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Garfield and Lyrebirds

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Lyrebirds can be found in the Bunyip State but I have found a few historic reports of lyrebirds further south. In November 1898, lyrebirds c...

Friday, September 8, 2023

Koalas at Yannathan and on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This post looks at references to koalas at Yannathan and more broadly on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. In May 1891, Cyrus Mason wrote a letter t...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Snakes Tales

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These are accounts of close encounters with snakes on and around the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. Just remember, killing snakes is now illegal and mos...

Friday, May 20, 2022

Native cats or Quolls in the West Gippsland area and beyond

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I came across this snippet in the book Early Days of Berwick (1) , first published in 1948. It was referring to farming areas around Berwic...

Sunday, March 31, 2019

Koo Wee Rup Swamp - where birds and beast gather to elect a King

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This interesting, but sort of weird, story was published in the Weekly Times of January 12, 1895. It is called False Friends and True and ...

Friday, March 8, 2019

Lyre birds and Koalas on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp

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This interesting article about fauna on the Koo Wee Rup Swamp in 1894 - 1895 - when there were still koalas and lyre birds. It comes from a ...

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Heather: I am a local history enthusiast, the President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and the Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. I was the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 until 2021.

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