Port Melbourne, VIC: ACF Macnamara Clean Up Australia Day event, Westgate Park

We are putting out a call to all love bugs for nature! ACF Community Macnamara is holding a Clean Up Australia Day event at the beautiful Westgate Park at Port Melbourne. 

Westgate Park, on the eastern side of Westgate Bridge, is a hidden gem of inner Melbourne. Revegetated and maintained over decades by volunteers, the park is an inspiring example of how a healthy ecosystem can be recreated within an urban environment.

It’s a green oasis in the heart of industrial Melbourne, part of the traditional lands of the Bunurong People and a hot spot for waterbirds like stilts, ducks, grebes, coots, pelicans, swans and moorhens.

It is also unfortunately a hot spot for litter!

At our clean up event, we will not only be collecting rubbish but also documenting what we find and uploading this information to the Tangaroa Blue Foundation, Australian Marine Debris Initiative (ADMI) data base. This data can help identify where much of the waste which is polluting Australian waterways and beaches is coming from and help us to stop it at the source!

All are welcome! If you have your own gloves, please bring them, along with a refillable water bottle, hat, sunscreen, closed shoes and a snack.

Date: Sunday 6 March 

Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Address: Westgate Park, Corner Lorimer Street & Sardine Street, Port Melbourne

Google GPS coordinates: 37°49'49.8"S 144°54'00.8"E

Getting there by bus 

The Sunday bus service #237 - City - Fishermans Bend via Lorimer Street.  The bus route starts at Little Collins St / Queen St (Melbourne City). Alight at the Sardine St/Lorimer St bus stop which is located on the Lorimer St /Sardine Street roundabout. Enter the park from this roundabout. The meeting location is approximately 60 metres into the park, close to where Westgate Bridge is overhead. 

Getting there by car

There is free parking at the end of Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne. Google Maps GPS coordinates -37.829839, 144.900677