By Brendan Rees
Families gathered to celebrate everything environmental at Cannons Creek on Sunday 25 November.
There was plenty for the kids to do at the Environmental Festival including interacting with the Animals of Oz educational display which featured frogs, lizards, a sugar glider possum, and a python.
The event also featured displays of vintage cars, local history photos, indigenous plants, a native flower show, bird facts, and Narre Warren SES.
Hosted by the Cannons Creek Foreshore Reserves Committee of Management and the Cannons Creek Residents Association, the day aimed to provide an education experience for people of all ages,
There was also face painting, a jumping castle, and a free barbecue, and a performance by Bairnsdale band, Organic Joe.
Organisers Norman Mortlock and Tracey Perrott said the festival was a success.
“A woman taught kids how to make little things out of sticks and gum nuts; they just glued them together, and that got the kids in,” Mr Mortlock said.
Families were also happy to provide a donation towards the free barbecue which would go back into the community, he added.
