learned activism from some of the best.
Greg Johnson: While searching the coast for an affordable holiday shack in the days when that was feasible, we found one at Ventnor, not so far away from home [in Eltham]. It was a bit of a wreck, but I was keen for somewhere accessible to enjoy my sailing dinghy. I’ll never forget celebrating our first day as holiday-home owners with a long beach walk and seeing our first Sea Eagle gliding parallel with the coast in the on-shore wind.
We were bird enthusiasts; my partner Marg had done a bushwalking course; I’d become a native plant gardener in Eltham, and we had often enjoyed the wildly beautiful Wilsons Prom with our children. We loved nature and that day we breathed in the coastal beauty of our new Island ‘home’. We were sure we’d find a local conservation group we could join.